m106L - Atik 16ic

[JohnP]

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.

[mickw]

There's nice detail in there though John, it's looking good.

[Mike]

Really nice again John. Plenty of detail in there.

[Fay]

That is very good John, how many more little gems have you forgotten about?

[Tony G]

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.

Lovely image.

Tony G

[RobertM]

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

[Rocket Pooch]

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

[JohnP]

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

[MarkS]

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

[JohnP]

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.