ASTRO: NGC 4449 Very fuzzy

I'm down to processing stuff that I started but got clouded out and
never got back to try again.

In this case I tried this guy very low in the sky where seeing was very
poor. I've had to do a lot of work to get much of anything out of it.
Then the shots were all taken through high clouds that greatly reduced
the light. While the lum image is 5 ten minute shots I doubt it has
more total light than I'd get in 10 minutes of clear skies. This thin
data made sharpening nearly impossible. LR routines were worthless. So
I lost most of the HII regions I'd hoped to get. RGB data is even
thinner with only one 10 minute frame for each. To get what I did I
needed 4 nights all of which were lousy. But it was vanishing fast into
the sun and tree line so I tried anyway. Since I'm posting everything
that at least looks something like the object here it is. Don't laugh.
There's always next year.

NGC 4449 is a star burst galaxy with much the same size and features as
the Large Magellanic Cloud. It's about the most similar galaxy I know
of. It has HII regions all across it but under my lousy conditions I
only caught a couple near the north end.

At least it is bigger than NGC 6745 in my last post!

14" LX200R @ f/10, L=5x10' RGB 1x10 all 8 frames heavily obscured,
STL-11000XM, Paramount ME.

Rick

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Rick,

looks good to me. I also post everything I have processed, and this is
certainly not a picture that I would have hesitated to post.

Stefan

"Rick Johnson" schrieb im Newsbeitrag
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I'm down to processing stuff that I started but got clouded out and
never got back to try again.

In this case I tried this guy very low in the sky where seeing was very
poor. I've had to do a lot of work to get much of anything out of it.
Then the shots were all taken through high clouds that greatly reduced
the light. While the lum image is 5 ten minute shots I doubt it has
more total light than I'd get in 10 minutes of clear skies. This thin
data made sharpening nearly impossible. LR routines were worthless. So
I lost most of the HII regions I'd hoped to get. RGB data is even
thinner with only one 10 minute frame for each. To get what I did I
needed 4 nights all of which were lousy. But it was vanishing fast into
the sun and tree line so I tried anyway. Since I'm posting everything
that at least looks something like the object here it is. Don't laugh.
There's always next year.

NGC 4449 is a star burst galaxy with much the same size and features as
the Large Magellanic Cloud. It's about the most similar galaxy I know
of. It has HII regions all across it but under my lousy conditions I
only caught a couple near the north end.

At least it is bigger than NGC 6745 in my last post!

14" LX200R @ f/10, L=5x10' RGB 1x10 all 8 frames heavily obscured,
STL-11000XM, Paramount ME.

Rick

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Correct domain name is arvig and it is net not com. Prefix is correct.
Third character is a zero rather than a capital "Oh".