Markarian's Chain and friends from SGL6

[SteveL]

Managed to pre-script a 4-pane mosaic using CCD Commander on Saturday morning, and got a chance to grab some images for 2 of those panes on Saturday night at SGL6. The skies had thin cloudy rolling through, and it was a bit murky, so I wasnt expecting much from this. Its OK, not great, there is a lot of noise in the full size version, and some worrying hot pixels that have started appearing in the FITs files.

If only it had stayed wind-and-rain-free for longer, I could have broken out the C11 Edge I had on loan from Ford Prefect...

Mount: EQ6 via EQMOD

OTA: Borg 60 @ f/3.8

Guiding: SW ED80 + SX Lodestar + Maxim

Imaging: Starlight Xpress M25C + MaximDL, 11 x 600s, Hutech LPS-V2 filter

Orchestrated: CDD Commander

Stacked: DeepSkyStacker

Post Process: PSCS2 + PixInsight

(Click on image for larger version, or click >>HERE<< for the HUGE version!)

[barkis]

Blimey, that's massive and very good indeed, considering the poor cooperation from the elements.

How did you find room in the car for a C11 though, it was full to the Gills last time out wasn't it? .

Ron.

[daz]

He didn't

[RogerTheDodger]

Very impressive...

[barkis]

He didn't

Does that mean you did Daz?

[Whippy]

That's pretty darn impressive depsite everything mate, that huge FOV applied to a 4 pane mosaic should make this awesome when it's done .

Does that mean you did Daz?

That's no moon....

Tony..

[Paxo]

great effort given the conditions.

Steve

[Psychobilly]

Bloomin eck is it that time of year again ...

Thanks for sharing... and nice to have had the chance of a few mins chat on my way out...

Peter...

[Ford Prefect]

Does that mean you did Daz?

i do hope so Ron, otherwise it was in the roof rack!!!

very nice image btw steve , sorry you didnt get to play with the edge

[Ant]

Very nice Steve, lovely FOV and a cracking start to a project!

I've just had a pan around the HUGE version and as you say there is a bit of noise... but nothing that won't be fixed with a few more subs.

Oh and flats

Cheers

Ant

[Psychobilly]

as you say there is a bit of noise... but nothing that won't be fixed with a few more subs.

Oh and flats

Cheers

Ant

and if we're being picky - a bit too green maybe ?

Billy...

[daz]

i do hope so Ron, otherwise it was in the roof rack!!!

very nice image btw steve , sorry you didnt get to play with the edge

Steve took the C11 in the roof box and I had his bedding in the car

[peter shah]

Great work steve... i would say the title is an understatement....i think Markarian's Chain has quite a few friends there, party time in that part of the sky!

[Doc]

Simply amazing Steve.