This image is the second chapter in my first imaging trip to Sandilands park since last fall (about 6 months). (First light for the AP GTO900 mount and the SW 120 esprit refractor). This image is a simple stack of 21 subs at 300 seconds, with some very basic green removal and cropping in PI, no deconvolution, GAME script treatment etc. I recognize the image of M51 and its dwarf companion are a red herring, my apologies.
I was inspired to try to capture some distant objects (IC4285 and IC4284) to achieve a personal record for distance. I couldn't plate solve for them but knew they were close to M51... if I had the field correctly oriented, I may have been more lucky. IC4285 may be even further away vs IC4284 - 1.131 billion lyrs or 258Mpc
https://kosmoved.ru/get_ngcic.php?ID=IC_4284&lang=engSo - I readjusted my search to include the much more accessible IC4263. Its only 39.6 Mpc or 129.1 mlyr distant. Still, a personal record.
https://in-the-sky.org/data/object.php?id=IC4263I shot this through a bunch of cloud early on in our session, but I think it turned out ok.
Testing and tweaking, we imaged until 5 am, packed up and drove home.
EDIT -> I was also glad to capture some of the details in M51 and NGC 5195 - especially in the cores of these galaxies. These are weakly interacting galaxies -> for a more comprehensive explanation of their interaction please visit Gary Imm's recent version and detailed input as to likely evolution of the two galaxies' current shape.
https://www.astrobin.com/876ojn/?q=M%2051%20gary%20immI will try to process this later in the week to draw some extra colour and detail from the data.
Thanks for looking! Clear skies to all
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