I took this back on March 22nd (forgot about this)..
L only with CLS filter from Bromley - total of 32 X 300secs (still needs more from a dark site) - I should have taken RGB from Chris's while I had the chance but forgot about it :-( This is quite a tough object & would have definitely benefitted from darker skies.
Cheers, John.
(http://www.jpastronomy.co.uk/graphics/web/m106final.jpg)
There's nice detail in there though John, it's looking good.
Really nice again John. Plenty of detail in there.
That is very good John, how many more little gems have you forgotten about?
John,
You are like the London buses, nothing comes along for ages and then all of a sudden 3 or 4 images in a matter of days. :D
Lovely image. ;)
Tony G
That's a lovely image of a difficult target John, especially in the core which is not easy to pull out. The distended outer arms are starting to sow as well.
Robert
Cool, that image gives the impression the galaxy is collapsing into the middle :-) another great image, who needs mega pixel cameras and fast scopes :-)
Chris
Cheers all for the comments. The 16ic is a very capable camera but it would be nice to have a few more pixels to play with... :-) Hopefully get some rgb next night out. John
That's a great image John. M106 is not one that I've ever tried. A lot of detail is coming out there.
You're right - darker skies would make a big difference to this image.
Mark
Thks Mark. M106 has great colours so would be great if you had a go at it.
I hadn't realized but I also caught another galaxy top left (really feint) - checked on SMP11 & it's UGC7536 which is mag 15.8 which is pretty good for my crappy light polluted skies... The inverted image (& heavily stretched) shows it better. The CLS definitely does a good job of pulling out all the fuzzies from the light polluted background.
Cheers, John.
(http://www.jpastronomy.co.uk/graphics/web/m106finalinvert.jpg)