The Hamburger Galaxy

[mackiedlm]

Each year around this time the venerable (25 y.o.) 8" LX200 GPS on its wedge is trundled out to get some galaxies. This time with the Canon 700D bolted on. I know its far from perfect but its nice to get "up close and personal" at 1960mm FL (I use a SW 0.85 reducer because my Meade 0.63 is worse than useless)

This is 100 X 180s (5Hrs) @ISO 800, 8" LX200 GPS, Wedge

Dont pixl peep as the stars are horrible! 

 

Edited March 14, 2022 by mackiedlm

[Dinglem]

@mackiedlm that is really nice lot's more detail than I usualy see of this target, I'll have to give it a try myself but it won't be anywhere as good as yours.

[ollypenrice]

Nice job on a glorious galaxy.

Olly

[Shibby]

Looks like you could have a really nice image here - I just wanted to say that I believe the noise reduction applied to the galaxy is too aggressive and has given it a sort of poster-like appearance, losing the detail. I'd be interested to see it with some more selective use of NR, with less applied to the galaxy itself?