Southern Spiral - NGC 300

Here is an image I thought I would share since I know many of my more Northerly friends cannot get this object. Even at 32 degrees north this barely reaches 19 degrees over my horizon. I took most of the data between 15 and 18 degrees, so it was a bit down in the murk. The color was a bit tricky and the luminance was somewhat noisy. The image can be accessed at:

http://jthommes.com/Astro/NGC300.htm

Perhaps Louie or Greg or some of our other Southern Hemisphere colleagues have done this object? I would be interested to see.

Scope was my C8 at f/5.8, Camera was my Artemis285

Awesome Job Jim ! you pulled out a lot of spiral arm structure out of a tough object with low surface brightness,well done.

Beautiful image Jim! I would never even try to shoot so low in the sky, but my skies may be less stable than yours. I am impressed.... again!

Great work Jim, specially for an object so dim and so low in the Sky... 8)

Thanks guys for the comments. It is somewhat bold to attempt an object like this so close to the horizon, but the sky stability is usually pretty good due the the Pacific Ocean influence - even 50 miles inland where I was.

Greg - Thanks for the great link on this object - I should have known to check Daniel's site.