ngc 6181 with my refractor

[FranckiM06]

Hello every body,

So yesterday night, I have shot this small galaxy. There is 16 x 600s in L with the 314L+ cooled at -10°:

[RobH]

Nice galaxy capture Franck.

It needs some flats though...there are a lot of dust bunnies showing that would be sorted out by flats, and the contrast would be much improved too.

Cheers

Rob

[FranckiM06]

Hello Rob,

I know about my flats because it is not good.

I will try to do something better on my image.

Thank you for yours advices

Franck

[RobH]

Hello Franck.

You won't regret it at all if you get into the routine of shooting flats.

It makes all the post processing much easier, and they aren't hard to do, especially with an electroluminescent panel.

With small faint targets like this one, you'll be amazed how much more you can pull out when flats have been applied

Cheers

Rob

[ollypenrice]

Franck, here in France the panels described by Rob are sold by Selectronic but Gerd Neumann of Astronomik has also found a good one to use. You can try Telescope Service for those I think.

It is getting hot here. My 2 stage Peltier was just hanging onto -20 and Tom O'D was just about able to hold that as well in his Atik 11 meg. I guess you are even hotter at lower altitude?

Cordialement,

Olly

[Geoffrey]

still looks good

[Shibby]

Hi Fanck, nice image, it's nice to see unusual galaxies posted. You're a real imaging machine!

PS: For some reason, you remind me of Dr Nick...