Hickson 44

[Parallax]

I had a stab at this one last night and I think that it needs longer subs. However, I have some guiding issues at the moment so, until I fork out yet more money, it will have to wait.

Hickson 44 group in Leo, centred around NCG 3190

Subs: 9 x 300s

Image: Explorer 200, Atik 16 ic-s

Guide: ST80, SPC900, PHD

Process: DSS, PSCS

Steve

[saturn5]

There are a lot of gems in Leo,very nice image indeed.Lovely smooth processing imho.

[Doc]

I can see what you mean by guiding problems but what a great image anyway. Love that spiral galaxy near the centre. I like this one alot.

[661-pete]

That's a tough and very faint group of galaxies, excellent piece of work to get so much detail of them! Never heard of this group before, I think NGC 3187 (the unwound one at lower left) is particularly intriguing! Thanks for posting these.

[Parallax]

Cheers guys. I've just set everything up for tonights session and it's guiding OK now. One of the guidescope ring bolts was loose. I will still have to make alterations to the setup though, but it can wait a little longer.

Steve

[AshObservatory]

Great image, loads of detail there. Glad you found your guiding problems. This is one reason I got away from guidescope rings and use this setup.

Tandem Guidescope Aiming Device