SGL 2024 Challenge 2 - DSO Sky Survey

[tomato]

This is Abell 2151, the Hercules Galaxy Cluster, centred on NGC 6045. 116 x 2mins Lum, 110 x 2 mins RGB captured with the Esprit 150/QHY268 dual rig.

Annotated images are being posted so I've included one.

[Tomatobro]

Taken with the following equipment.

Skywatcher ED72 with 0.8 reducer

Skywatcher Star Adventurer GTI

ZWO ASI585MC

ZWO ASIair Plus

180 x 30 second images dithered every 10 frames

[alacant]

Hi everyone
Some really nice stuff in the thread.
Not a very wide field, but quite a few to survey.
100 2 minute frames using a cheepo gso203, procesado: Siril 1.3a  StarTools 1.9.565

 

Edited April 28 by alacant
1.3

[Petrol]

Markarian's Chain
WO Megrez 72 FD, Zwo183 camera
EQ5 mount
 

Edited April 27 by Petrol

[Petrol]

Markarian's Chain widefield
Samyang 135mm, Player One Poseidon-C Pro camera
EQ5 mount
 

[alacant]

A few more to survey. This time in Draco.

Tidying this morning, I noticed Deneb and Vega overhead. Nice to see so many galaxies in this challenge; a reminder that eye-candy season is just around the corner🤥

Thanks for looking and wishing clear skies to all.

64 3 minute frames, gso203, procesado: Siril 1.3a  StarTools 1.9.565-beta

Edited April 28 by alacant
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[alacant]

... and one last one. Promise. Quite a few around m100 to identify.

68 3 minute frames, gso203, procesado: Siril 1.3a  StarTools 1.9.565-beta

[Spongey]

M106 HaLRGB. An awful lot going on in the background with interacting galaxy pairs and large galaxy clusters all over the field. 

There are hundreds of quasars in this image as well, with the furthest having a redshift of 3.815, meaning that this light has been travelling through space for over 12 billion years before hitting my camera sensor   

[MartinB]

This challenge has now ended, the results will be announced within the next 2 weeks