ngc 2903 with 314L+ & tsa 120

[FranckiM06]

January 22nd, I have shot this nice galaxy but the cloudy were over my head just 2 hours after my first shot ! So, I only done 8 x 10mn + dark & flats:

[Doc]

Another great shot Francki, amazes me how you find clear skies

[FranckiM06]

Thank you Mike,

For the weather, I'm just lucky guy's ! Come to live in South Est of France and you will get the clear sky most of time.

Franck

[prokyon]

Wow, great shot! The details are amazing.

cheers

werner

[RobH]

Excellent work....are you planning to add any more to this?

Cheers

Rob

[FranckiM06]

No, but I could do it !

[RobH]

Yes, certainly add more

I reckon on grabbing at least 5 hours of data for a shot like this.

You will then be able to get a much smoother transition into the background from the spiral arms, without noise issues, and may find some interesting faint objects in the background too.

I once did an image with almost 100 x 10 minute subs, and decided to see how far I could push it in processing until it became noisy, just for an experiment. I actually couldn't get it to become noisy....the S/N ratio was that good with so many subs.

Greg Parker reckons on getting around 100 subs for his and Noel Carbonis' work, and their results speak for themselves.

Cheers

Rob

[RichieJarvis]

Tis a great pic - lovely and sharp - Rob's right about grabbing more data though - needs it to remove the noise and really bring out the detail

[barkis]

That's a lovely galaxy shot Franck.

I see the faint outer arms which may have developed more with extra data. Still a fine result though.

Ron.

[FranckiM06]

Thank you every body

[ollypenrice]

Its good Franck, already, but Rob is right. By the way, I had a bad time with this one myself and gave up in the end! I couldn't get the colour right.

You are having fun with that Tak...

Olly

[Whippy]

Very nice , I've got this one on my 'to do' list..

Tony..

[FranckiM06]

Thank you Olly & Tony. I know that Rob is right and I will try to follow is advice.

Franck

[MartinB]

Well worth adding some more, it is looking great now but a couple more hours will really be something