Intergalactic Journey

[A/45]

Three edge-on galaxies and a colliding pair in one go: NGC7814, NGC891, NGC4565 & NGC4038&4039.

Scope: Takahashi MT-160 Newtonian
Mount: Takahashi EM-200 Temma II
Camera: SBIG ST-2000XCM self-guided
Exposure: 15min subs @-10 degC (lowest I could get before CCD frosting)
Time & weather: 4 January 2008, sky turned from clear to slightly fogged after midnight
Processing: MaximDL, Photoshop CS2, PixInsight LE
All images resized to 1000X750 uncropped

[Tarepanda]

哇哇!!!!!!!好漂亮的星系
特別是最後一張,第一次看
如果在水口拍,背景可以更加暗吧
下次一起去水口拍啦

[A/45]

Background darkened version.

[Subaru]

勁呀!

我估A/45已經係在水口拍攝.

[WFPC2]

so beautiful! galaxy is my favorite!I like these pretty distant island universes

[daniel cck]

Very nice image!

[Wah!!]

Very deep images!
I love them, especially the arms in ngc4038-s.jpg~

[豆豸苗]

Very deep, very cute, very nice galaxy~

seeing those galaxy remind me human are so so so so small in the universe~

[A/45]

Dear all, thanks for your comments!

I found that even slightly fogged sky took a toll on image quality. You can see that the NGC7814 image which was taken earlier before the fog rolled in is better than the rest taken the other half of the night by having much smaller star size. Also, seeing was deteriorating later on.

Lawrence

[A/45]

This is galaxy season again with the seemingly vast hollow autumn night sky. There are however lots of jewels to be revealed.

I tried a few wide views intentionally showing the "distances".

NGC7814 - an edge on one about 40 million lightyears from us with a distinctive dust lane, which I last imaged in 2008.

Takahashi Epsilon-130 on EM10 Temma 2 Jr.
Canon 450D Mod
12x5min @ ISO800, Darks
Guided by DSI Pro II via GPUSB on Meade 8x50 Finder
Taken on 5 October 2013 at PTC
DSS, PSCS2
Image resized and uncropped


A closer look:
Same image cropped and un-resized.

[anyone]

好喜歡相對闊視場的深空相片！

[A/45]

NGC7479 tiny version.
Takahashi Epsilon-130 on EM10 Temma 2 Jr.
Canon 450D Mod
Guided by DSI Pro II via GPUSB on Meade 8x50 Finder
15x5min @ ISO800, Darks
Taken on 5 October 2013 at PTC
DSS, PSCS2

[Eddy So]

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A/45 @ PTC??

Good Take.

[noodle]