NGC253 taken with superb seeing

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Comment by Jeffrey P Nunnari on November 4, 2011 at 10:49am

Nice shot, man. I tried to get this (for the 2nd time - got it somewhat last year) the other night, but it is just too low in my neck of the woods. There is a place about 50 miles south of here with a dark southern sky that I may try again from.

Comment by Richard Crisp on May 21, 2011 at 11:21am

Thanks. I had been wanting to image NGC253 for a long time and it seems that everytime I thought about imaging it, the darn thing was "out of season". I got lucky in late summer 2009 when I happened to realize it was in position one night and the conditions were spectacular

Comment by Steve Coates on May 21, 2011 at 9:40am

You have a really nice collection of photos...and scopes!

Comment by Philip A Cruden on May 21, 2011 at 9:00am

Thanks for the info Richard

Comment by Richard Crisp on May 21, 2011 at 12:15am

no doubt that a cooled purpose-built astronomical camera will deliver better results for long exposure low light photography. But you can't do much else with it; such as taking pictures of the wife and kids....

on the other hand a nice DSLR can do that and can also take pretty darned good astroimages of brighter objects

if you have the budget to get the astrocam and can keep peace in the family, then that is the way to go for deep sky photography in my view

Comment by Philip A Cruden on May 20, 2011 at 9:54pm

Hi Richard, nice capture man. I have been trying to make up my mind with purchasing a DSLR or a CCD imager and shots like this really help me make up my mind and go CCD.