M106 - B&W....

[RichieJarvis]

Hi All,

Whilst I waited for M27 to poke out from behind the trees, I thought I would have a go at another galaxy which I haven't managed to bag yet.

Went a bit silly on this one and used 20 minute subs through a clear filter - will have to see if I can grab the colour data later on. Got 6 subs before I switched over to M27.

Kitwise, this was taken with an SXV-H9 through an AP102 @ F/7....

I was very pleased that my flats removed all of the dust bunnies I saw in the original as well! I think this will be a long-term work in progress (isn't everything in this game??!!)

I think I've managed to capture the essence though!

Thanks for looking,

Cheers,

Richie

[Stephen Green]

Nice image Richie you had a good night then

Stephen

[Doc]

Wow Richie what a cracker this turned out to be

[Beyond_Vision]

Thats looking pretty damn fine Richie loads of detail showing. It's worth grabbing some more data to smooth out the noise. I would take at a minimum of 10 subs.

Regards

Kevin

[Ant]

20 minute subs Lovely mate. Wish I had the skies for a 20 minute sub.

I'm not overly familiar with M106, but it looks like you have some nice detail come through.

If that's a work in progress, the end result could be somehting special.

Ant

[Sam]

Nice work Richie, the longer subs have really captured out the detail in the outer arms.

[philj]

Loads of detail in there Richie a succesful night

Phil

[RichieJarvis]

Thanks All...

Yep - I definitely need to shoot some more Luminance data on this to smooth it more - it just a while with 20 minute subs though!

Doesn't look like this evening is going to be good though

@Ant - just to really rub you up the wrong way, thats 20 minute subs through an IR block clear filter with no LP filter from my home observatory

Cheers,

Richie

[Psychobilly]

Sorry RJ... been catching up on the ugly.,..

Nicely done matey... very nice detail in there as a result of the 20 min subs i think unfiltered i strugle to get more than 30-60s

Quick colour wash and Bobs your mothers brother...

Peter....

[Imahumanbeing]

That is AWESOME Richie! Fantastic picture.

Jamie

[Dangerous-Dave]

Superb picture Richie, that SXV-H9 is one nifty camera as I have just found out.

[Starjumper]

Great capture with lots of detail Ritchie.

John

[Tim]

Great pic Richie, I'd appreciate the full size tiff of this , I have 10 hours or so of M106 at various focal lengths, but could do with a bit more outer fainter stuff.

Cheers

Tim

[RobH]

Nice one Richie.

The 20 minute subs have really caught the faint outer arms well.

I'm stuck at a maximum of 6 minute subs at the moment, so I'm not jealous at all

Cheers

Rob