NGC 5033 and some sweet spikes (Marten Amschler)

Celestial hemisphere: Northern · Constellation: Canes Venatici (CVn) · Contains: NGC 5005 · NGC 5014 · NGC 5033

NGC 5033 and some sweet spikes

Revision title: less noise, better stars and colors

NGC 5033 and some sweet spikes

Revision title: less noise, better stars and colors

NGC 5033 is an active spiral galaxy in 41 million ly distance. It's neighbor NGC 5005 is a 45 million ly distant spiral galaxy. They weakly influence each other gravitationally. Both show multiple dust lanes and both have a bright nucleus that is thought to contain a supermassive black hole.

I actually didn't choose these objects because of their beauty (and they ARE beautiful!). I chose this field of view because of the proximity of the two mag 6 stars. I wasn't satisfied with how my stars looked so far with my current setup (saturation and spikes). I got a great tip to improve my spikes from @Daniel Nimmervoll. He suggested to buy a high quality spider... and I was willing to give it a try.
Check out Revision B or the mouseover to make yourself an opinion

This project showed to me that some simple changes can have a great impact on my pictures. I am looking forward for my next upgrades: After one more project I'll switch to Mono and PixInsight.
Since I really like the field of view - I photoshoped a group-up of all the action in Revision C.

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Title: Spike Comparison with new spider

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Title: less noise, better stars and colors

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Revision title: less noise, better stars and colors

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