Hi Jon,
Another superb 'megapixel' image. Great stuff!
There seem to be almost star free dark lanes between the galaxies. No
wonder you risked getting lost.
Robin
--- In QCUIAG_at_yahoogroups.com, Jon Grove <JGrove_at_S...> wrote:
<em class="quotelev1">> Hi All,
<em class="quotelev1">>
<em class="quotelev1">> Here's a mosaic I made on Saturday, of the 'Leo Trio' - three
galaxies, M65,
<em class="quotelev1">> M66 and NGC3628. The mosaic is made from 110x10s exposures, taken
with the
<em class="quotelev1">> 1004x in 2x1 binned mode at prime focus of my 6" F/5 Newtonian.
Preprocessed
<em class="quotelev1">> with AVIDark, mosaic made with iMerge, rotated, cropped and final
processing
<em class="quotelev1">> in PaintshopPro.
<em class="quotelev1">>
<em class="quotelev1">> All the panning around for the mosaic was done manually, and I was
worried
<em class="quotelev1">> about getting 'lost' in the area between the galaxies where there
were not
<em class="quotelev1">> many stars. Fortunately it all fitted together OK in the end! I
think longer
<em class="quotelev1">> exposures would have helped to improve the s/n ratio, but on the
whole I'm
<em class="quotelev1">> pretty happy with this image.
<em class="quotelev1">>
<em class="quotelev1">> Clear Skies,
<em class="quotelev1">> Jon.
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