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Hi All
This shot was taken from Coonabarabran which is 5 hours NorthWest of Sydney and a very dark site.
Exposures were 10min x 12 shot with a SXV-H9C through the ZS 66SD/.8 reducer guided on a G11 mount through a ZS110.

I used AA3 to capture, align&combine and CS2 for post processing where I used levels and curves to stretch and some Highpass layer masks for sharpening and gaussian blur for smoothing.

The seeing was very average but the transparency seemed very good on this night so I guess we can't always wait till conditions are perfect or we would never get a shot in.

This galaxy is very low on the horizan for us down here but It's one I've been wanting to shoot for a while now.

I found It vary difficult to process,It needs much more exposure time and I think that I should of used longer subs,but anyway I'll look to add to It in the future.
Image can be found at my Web site www.atalas.net in Most Recent folder.
I hope you all enjoy

PIC? 8)

Louie,
I also tried it recently, and was also surprised how much time it really needs, but I think you've captured and brought out far more than your initial post indicated! Nice job.
Question: how are you liking the .8 reducer with the ZS66 SD? I'm giving up on my Meade 6.3--way too much vignetting, although I really like the wider field for many targets. (Not that you can find the WO reducer).
Again, great job,
Larry