A prop and a galaxy

[Wiu-Wiu]

The moon is starting to get brighter, so shooting galaxies is not an option anymore, lucky Cygnus is starting to rise, bringing a bunch of lovely nebulousity with it so we can still shoot narrowband images. 

I started with NGC 3726, a face on spiral galaxy in UMA, which can be added to my list of underrated galaxies. I really need to make work of my longer focal length setup, and do these with the C11 Edge one day. 

 

After this, I spent some time on the Propellor, which doesn't show up in the Asiair database, which is a shame as it is missed by a lot of imagers that way. This is clearly a quite bright and easy target. I need to add more data over the summer. 

I used the coordinates to find it, hence the strange composition. I'm lucky to have that bright streak to the lower richt, to fill in some empty space. 

 

[maw lod qan]

Excellent images!

Since I joined the forum I find myself looking closely at all the other faint galaxies in the distance in an image.

It's an amazing universe!