NGC7814 The Little Sombrero Galaxy

[sdbodin]

Should be the Fall Sombrero as it is nearly the size of M104, but more on edge and a bit fainter. Shot 8 lums last night, but hi-cirrus invaded most of them, so found 9 lums from last year as well as RGB and just stacked it all together. Really a two year image and five minutes short of two hours data. I like all those tiny background galaxies too. I'll leave to someone else to count them up. Been a bad Fall, 25F last night and snow tonight, probably no imaging for another 2-3 weeks since the moon is back too ( rant ends).

Specifics; Meade 16 LX200 at f6.2, Atik 460ex mono, 17/5min Lum, 2/5min RGB all 2x2 binned for 0.7"/pixel at 2500mm efl. OAG w/QHY5L-II mono at 2 sec rate. Captured and stacked in Nebulosity, post in PS CS5 with Carboni tools. Posted image 20% cropped, but full size.

Clear skies,
Steve

[Peppy]

Very well done, lots of detail thanks for sharing.

[Thefatkitty]

Very nice; you're right, there is a lot of faint fuzzies too Good you had some clear skies. I hear you on the weather; freezing rain here now, later to turn into 4-6" of snow by tonight.... I might call in sick tomorrow

Thanks for sharing and all the best,

[yobbo89]

nice and sharp! ,aka needle galaxy ?

[KathyNS]

Great image!

[OzEclipse]

Beautiful image and congratulations on being awarded the picture of the day.

Joe

[STEVE333]

Beautiful closeup Steve.

Steve

[Juno16]

Great image Steve!

Super nice detail. I can appreciate your rant about the moon and the weather!

Thanks!

Jim

[Kanadalainen]

Beautiful, love the DSOs in the background too.
Ian

[Hankmeister3]

Impressive, Steve, especially with all the DSOs in the background.

[MariusD69]

Awesome!! Great job, Steve!

[ic_1101]

Really nice smooth closeup Steve, well done !