NGC 1

[sdbodin]

Well, you got to start somewhere and it is a twofer. Both NGC 1 and 2 in close proximity in the sky but a 100 million light year apart. Actually both are 2-300 mly away, definitely small targets. Easy to fined in the sky, just inside the Great Square, near Alpha And. Bright rising moon caused all sorts of grief in processing, especially with the air being soupy and some hi-cirrus, seeing OK, temp near freezing and no wind. But, had to get out, been a month of lousy skies.

Specifics; Meade 16 LX200 at f6.2 with Starizona reducer, Atik 460ex mono 9/5 min lum, 2/5min RGB all binned 2x2 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, final image full size about 50% crop.

Clear skies,
Steve

[Mac]

Great capture Steve... glad to see you were able to get out too. I also imaged this but it came out nothing like yours. They looked like fuzzy stars at 714mm.

[MariusD69]

Looks great! Well done, Steve!

[messier 111]

very nice wide field , thx .

[Juno16]

Awesome distant targets Steve! Great work!

[Ylem]

Very nice
Thanks for sharing Steve

[sdbodin]

They looked like fuzzy stars at 714mm.

Thanks,
I agree, just two fuzzy 14th mag spots, not worthy of wasting photons. But, they are first on the first page of the book, so, why not. Every good book has an " In the beginning " passage. After all, everyone does M1.

Clear skies,
Steve

[STEVE333]

Nice one Steve. Even your "big dog" has to strain a bit to capture any details on these two.

Well done.

Steve

[yobbo89]

I like, that's is an od number for me to See," ngc 1" usually in my sky ngc catalog are like 4 digits haha