First Galaxy M109 - taken a while back

[LunarLight]

Hey guys

I totally forgot I had this data, I took it way back around summer sometime. My bad about the vignetting my processing/flat taking was no where near upto scratch when I took this but what the hell its my first galaxy

Its about 2.30 hours worth of 60 second unguided subs, with 10 darks I think so the image aint great but if you look closely you can see some of the smaller galaxies.

I will also include a link to the full size image

FULL: http://img80.imageshack.us/img80/889/m109roughlyedited.jpg

Thanks for looking

[Hawklord]

Great effort for your first galaxy. Some good quality flats will sort the vignetting and at least double the number of darks will reduce noise so it can be stretched a bit more.

[davo]

Love the full size image it's a beautifull galaxy.. Some others in the background so far out there.

[LunarLight]

Hawklord - thank you indeed more fdarks would have been useful, once I have my guide equipment sorted I will revisit m109.

I tried to get one of the stars of urea major in the bottom corner which I had to cut out because it was excessively burnt out but I have just learned some new processing technique for removing vignetting and layer masking so I will try to process again :-)

Davo - it is a lovely galaxy, I like the spiral structure of this galaxy. 50 million light years is indeed some distance ha!

What really gets me is how many stars we are looking at!

[BobMax1200]

Wonderful picture