Ralph McIntosh
scholastic sledgehammer
Reged: 11/26/03
Posts: 908
Loc: Hanau/Germany
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Here we go again
On Saturday Weather turned over and we had a wonderful clear night.
No haze like the days before, could not be better.
So a college decided to go for this 3 galaxy group, well I thought why not do it myself.
I wanted to try out longer exposure series so I ran 28 of them.
After all still I got a very noisy background after stretching. So I made some Darks at home and used them to make it a bit smoother. Still needed heavy processing
And here the group:
AP 130EDT using Focal Reducer (makes round 800mm)
28 x 8min ISO800 Canon mod. 300D
As you see these are very fizzy boys.
So here the 100% crops of them (in order NGC5907, NGC5905, NGC508)
Well need some hints how to get the background easier smooth (even using 28 Exposure Series)
Ore may I am going back to long time exposures, still don’t know.
But I am still happy with the image, it is not an easy object.
Ralph
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Galaxy001
Carpal Tunnel
Reged: 06/08/06
Posts: 1633
Loc: San Ramon, California
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Amazing images, Ralph. Great detail despite how small they are.
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s58y
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Reged: 12/12/04
Posts: 6505
Loc: Eastern NY
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Excellent galaxy image. Especially impressive is NGC5905 (the middle one).
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Corn
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Reged: 12/27/04
Posts: 2199
Loc: Sweden
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Nice image of the two edge-on galaxies.
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Canon 300D (mod)
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FebStars
Pooh-Bah
Reged: 02/02/06
Posts: 1441
Loc: MA
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Beautiful job, Ralph. Nice detail on the small galaxies, and really like the composition as well.
Tom
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DaveD
professor emeritus
Reged: 03/03/06
Posts: 691
Loc: Santa Cruz, CA
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Very nice! Nice details and I like this grouping.
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Dave
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AviddayM
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Reged: 12/28/05
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Loc: Snohomish, Washington
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Wow! nice image with good detail.
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Dave
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Andrew Welsh
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Reged: 03/28/06
Posts: 2571
Loc: Rochester, NY
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Good job. 5908 reminds me of M104/sombrero galaxy. I didn't know where in the sky these were until I checked out Skymap pro... these are galaxies in Draco, near M102, which is in the neighborhood of M51.
Personally, my house blocks all northern objects, and I am less than 5 miles from a city which is to my north anyway, so I never bother to explore galaxies at high declinations. Kinda sad actually.
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