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Seahorse nebula (LDN 234): My first time imaging this dark nebula in Ophiuchus which is not well placed in semi dark skies. This was just 1.3hrs of LRGB as part of a planned two pane mosaic using the Sky-Watcher 80 Esprit, however a lot more data will be needed to improve on the signal to noise ratio.
NGC4216 group of galaxies: 100 minutes of LRGB/Ha data of this area of the constellation Virgo - a part of the sky packed with galaxies as the wider field annotated image shows.
Antennae galaxies (NGC4038): I decided to collate all of my recent data together of this target, which comprised almost 14 hours worth of LRGB/Ha data of this most interesting set of galaxies. I used NSG in Pixinsight to ensure just the best data was used and then drizzled the data set to improve resolution. Due to sky conditions and the low altitude of these galaxies in our skies, I had to remove a considerable amount of average data, so ended up recombining recent integrations to improve on the colour appearance, with a larger luminance data set from the drizzled compilation improving things somewhat.
Catseye Galaxy (NGC6543): Again I collated all available data taken with my Sky-Watcher Esprit 80 from recent weeks which comprised 11.5 hours worth and used NSG to integrate the best of the data which I then integrated using drizzling to improve the resolution. I took around 2.5 hours of shorter exposures to bring out the centre of the planetary nebula which was blended into the main composition.
Chris Bowden
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