Celestial hemisphere:  Southern  ·  Constellation: Pavo (Pav)  ·  Contains:  IC 4820  ·  IC 4823  ·  NGC 6744
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Pavo Spiraller (Pavo spirae ad max), Addos
Pavo Spiraller (Pavo spirae ad max)
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Pavo Spiraller (Pavo spirae ad max)

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Pavo Spiraller (Pavo spirae ad max), Addos
Pavo Spiraller (Pavo spirae ad max)
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Pavo Spiraller (Pavo spirae ad max)

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A quick two night integration on this spiral galaxy in the southern constellation Pavo.  Speculated to look quite similar to our Milky Way, she's got some very interesting colours and worthy of an attempt!

This sits sadly right near the Brisbane CBD light cone from the backyard so gradients are pretty strong with this one; pushing for more integration time would really suffer from diminishing returns.  That said, it caused me to try Graxpert for the first time and I can attest, its light years ahead of DBE.  Absolutely magical piece of software, highly recommend.  It may have been nice to get some Ha signal, but I was pleasantly surprised with how well the star forming regions came through.

On the second night we seemed to have some really exceptional seeing, even through the light pollution.  The old eq6 was giving me ~0.4" rms, very impressed, enough for me to hit pause on staring at the NYX-101

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