I always love the longer winter nights, they're cold and there's tons of my favorite DSO to observe. Galaxies to me are all so unique and far away!
Here's NGC2336, with specs: Dist:90–100 MLY, Size:7.1′×3.9′, Mag:10.3 V, Type:SAB(r)bc (barred spiral)
I need a new camera, my SBIG8300M is dying and causing issues staying connected all night and now that it's 14years old I'm looking for a good full frame mono and an upgrade to my 1.25" LRGB filters! I'm open to recos, TIA!
I also need to rework my processing routine, I didn't include here but used Deepskystacker
I stayed up really late to get this as I am not ready to set alarms for MPC/Comet/Deep sky... no reason other than I get to stay up late!
Any way, I snuck in some color and included the Tycho Tracker measurements too!
Thanks and enjoy!
I've been using AI to gather the infoblocks in my images and found quite a lot of inconsistencies with these, but the contrast in morphology in this single frame is amazing, I love the barred spiral near the face on spiral! It's like finding sea shells in the sky!!!
One of the things I love to see the results of but don't actually like doing is putting in all the little fast facts and menuing. I started working heavily with AI for work and home. I decided it was time to automate this as well. AI is quite good at researching the info on the blog title, scripting no so much so. Between the object specs and exposure automation, I hope to burn down a LOT of DSO work I've been holding out on. Lots in the past 2 years, such as this cool subject, NGC2841, but some going back to 2015 such as NGC210 (Incorrectly shot as NGC248 11 years ago).
ENJOY!
Growing catalog of Galaxies are here:
Google Photos = https://photos.app.goo.gl/rW21YSiQb7yGnBzd6
Imgur - https://imgur.com/a/LbziC
