M106 - closer in

[Tim]

After seeing this the first time from my GSO, I then did a widefield shot of it with the little WO72, found here :

http://stargazerslounge.com/imaging-deep-sky/78410-more-little-fuzzies.html

During a freak clear spell the other night, I manged to grab 2.75 hrs worth of it through my C9.25 with focal reducer and celestron OAG.

Its a lovely galaxy this one, very colourful with the OSC QHY8 grabbing it, and I was very pleased to see a bit of pink in the outer regions, where the new stars are forming. (the QHY8 also picked up a few pinky pixels in the faint edge on galaxy nearby, you can see them on the larger image)

I'm not certain I have the spacing right from focal reducer, through OAG, to camera, as no matter how good the flats, the edges of the image are still unusable, and have very bad vignetting, I'll need to look closer at that.

Thanks for looking.

Large image here;

http://www.btinternet.com/~mr.squeegee/Astro/m106-c9.25fullsize.jpg

[moocher]

Its a stunning galaxy Tim, lovely colours and fine detail. I was begining to think after 4 attempts at it myself it was going to become my "Nemesis". Wish i had a longer focal length scope to grab a more detailed snap shot.....

Alan:)

[Tim]

That outer region seems hard to get much on, although there was a bit of high thin cloud about not helping I suppose.

[Imahumanbeing]

That is awesome TJ. Fantastic colours and detail. Brilliant!

[RobH]

Really good Tim.

What are the exposure times etc?

Cheers

Rob

[CELESCOPE]

Thats lovely Tim. very well detailed indeed , and like the colour as well ,really shows the detail. the outer part of the galaxy as you say it does need a longer exposure , hence our thread a while back. i managed to get that outer part on 106 but that was with the super Atik 16hr heheeh and a longer exposure , a good long Lum is whats needed on this devil for sure.

Rog

[moocher]

Yep agree completely. I`ve managed 80 mins Luminance so far and i reckon it could do with the same again.......then colour and maybe ha!!!

Alan:)

[Tim]

There was too much cloud for really long expo's so I went for 400 secs each on this. If I get a clear night i'll go for 20 mins again. Rob, its as many 400 secs as make up 2hrs, 46mins and 20 secs

Got a link to your pic Rog? I wonder what it'd look like registar'd.

[CELESCOPE]

Hi Tim, this was mine taken a few weeks ago now , at work i dont see much of the outer galaxy , but i know its there ,my home monitor shows it well ,

Rog

http://stargazerslounge.com/imaging-deep-sky/77432-m-106-canes-venatici.html

[Psychobilly]

Very Nice TJ and as you said there should be quite a lot of data to registar for this one now...

Fingers crossed for the weekend...

Peter...

[moocher]

What scope was your image taken with Rog? The Equinox 120?

Alan:)

[ash]

Excellent image Tim so much detail in the larger image

Well done:icon_salut:

Andy

[CELESCOPE]

Yes Al the 120 Equinox.

Rog:)

[Beyond_Vision]

Super job Tim got me wishing for a longer focal length set up for this time of year

Regards

Kevin

[Tim]

Kevin, can you not use the Meade?

[Beyond_Vision]

I could but would have to buy a wedge which would be £500+. I am not sure whether to invest in that route or go for something that I can use on my Orion Sirius EQ-G mount.

Regards

Kevin

[Tim]

ah, between the devil and the deep blue sea then. I've never seen the wedges, but the overiding impression is that nobody seems to be entirely happy with them.

[brendant]

Beautiful image Tim, lovely detail and superb processing.

Brendan

[saturn5]

Excellent detail and great colour,looks so natural.

[Paliadon]

Lovely shot mate, really great detail.