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NGC 300 Southern Pin Wheel Galaxy

NGC 300  Southern Pin Wheel Galaxy
I had only a short time before the moon came up After programing failures, glitches and computer hang ups in the program took what little time I had away. after a number of restarts of the computer I just rewrote the sequence from scratch, this is just 7 shot @5 min each. A shot for my friend Ko as I told him I have not see a Galaxy or shot one , first try.

A very faint Galaxy but the only one that is even close to try out, there are much smaller ones well beyond my current range. this is a huge crop of the photo to see this small amount of detail. this will get another look on a night with no moon and city night pollution.. open the link for a much better view.


en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NGC_300

Peter_Private_Box, Marco F. Delminho, tiabunna, Erhard Bernstein and 2 other people have particularly liked this photo


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 Ko Hummel
Ko Hummel club
a nice picture of N 300 congratulations . Another galaxy I like to propose is NGC 55. It's much bigger than N 300 and brighter
3 years ago. Edited 3 years ago.
Steve Paxton club has replied to Ko Hummel club
I will try as I want to test out tonight so a whole new sequence written plus I have a few more hours moon free tonight.
3 years ago.
 tiabunna
tiabunna club
Well captured, Steve. I've not tried for anything like that.
3 years ago.
Steve Paxton club has replied to tiabunna club
You need a 1000mm lens to get this huge crop from FX sensor was trying DX crop mode 900mm but camera is not pointing in the right place . We cant work out why either.
3 years ago.

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