Data collected with a 10 inch RCOS Ritchey Chretien on an AP900GTO Mount, SBIGST10XME/CFW10 and water assisted cooling. 8 x 600s Luminance only 1x Bin. Sub exposures calibrated, aligned and stacked in CCDStack. Final adjustments in Photoshop CS2.
Effective Focal Length 2276.7mm - .62" per Pixel
Image Center: RA 12h 40m 30s, Dec -11d 40m 39s, Pos Angle 146.2d
Really like the image and the points on the larger star. Good data collected made a great image. Keep up the good work! Thanks for sharing!
2010-06-07 10:49:51 GMT
mb
Very nice. Great job on capturing dust lane details.
2010-06-07 16:56:37 GMT
lesmz
very nice
2010-06-07 16:57:47 GMT
Teresa
Great image. Good data for an amateur instrument.
2010-06-07 19:55:43 GMT
mattgarwood
Hi William
That is fantastic, especially for only 8 ten min subs. The detail in the galaxy is just superb. I'd imagine the seeing was very good when you took this. You've also processed it very well IMO.
You must be thrilled with this.
All the best
Matt
2010-06-07 22:52:50 GMT
wrmattil
Thanks everyone for the nice comments !
Matt, I shot this from almost 33 Degrees North which means means that M104 doesn't get all that high and it's not readily accessible for a long period of time. In fact the data collected was the sum total possible in one night. The second night had some low clouds that made it impossible to collect more data. I had aspirations of doing this in color but I simply did not have enough time available. I'll revisit this target again. Thanks again everyone !
