From: Alan Friedman <alan@greatarrow.com>

Date: August 30, 2009 8:16:11 PM MDT

To: Astro_IIDC@yahoogroups.com

Subject: Re: [Astro_IIDC] M33 and NGC 6946 Galaxies

Some excellent! images from your vacation, Milton. I can see the good sky conditions from the nice tight stars. 

thanks for posting them,

Alan

On Aug 30, 2009, at 10:12 PM, milton_aupperle wrote:

Hi Folks;

Two more images from last week.

Messier 33 - the core area of the big galaxy in triangulum:

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Astro_IIDC/files/DSO/M33_LRGB2x2_20090825.jpg

and NGC 6946 the FireWorks Galaxy.

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Astro_IIDC/files/DSO/NGC6946_LRGB2x2_20090825_MJA.jpg

Both shot with the C8, 1149 mm FL, 15 minute Luma, 17 minutes Red, 13 minutes Green and 13 minutes Blue. I only got one R G B frame for each one and 3 Luma for NGC 6946 (stupid satellites!) and 5 Luma for M33. I binned them 2x2 when stacking to improve the brightness.

I likely will re-do M33 later on, as it's a bit noisier than I like.

TTYL..

Milton Aupperle