First full colour image from Eagleview Observatory in Australia
NGC 1232 is a face on, intermediate spiral galaxy, located about 60 million light-years away in the constellation Eridanus.
Its apparent size of 7.4' X 6.5' makes it a modest size galaxy on the sky and under good atmospheric conditions shows a wealth
of detail in its colourful whirling spiral arms, including pink-red emission nebulae and many clusters of bright blue stars.
Orion Optics UK AG12 F3.8
Starlightxpress TRIUS PRO-694 Midi Combi PRO Blue Edition incl. CFW & OAG unit + FLI Atlas Focuser
LHaRGB = 170 80 40 40 40min (bin 1X1) = 6.2 hrs
Astronomik Deep-Sky LRGB filters
-20C chip temp, no flats used and no dark frames.
Focal length 1120mm
Image scale 0.84"/pix
Guide Camera: Starlightxpress Lodestar PRO
Comments
Data collected over two nights 17 and 25 Nov 2022 no moon, excellent seeing (FWHM 1.5" - 1.8")
Taken from Eagleview Observatory:
https://pbase.com/strongmanmike2002/eagleview_observatory
Equipment setup:
https://pbase.com/strongmanmike2002/image/173097781/original
Some links to equipment used to take this image:
Sidereal Trading
https://www.siderealtrading.com.au/
StarlightXpress CCD Cameras and imaging equipment
http://www.sxccd.com/products
Finger Lakes Instrumentation CCD cameras:
http://www.flicamera.com/
Gerd Neumann and Astronomik filters:
http://www.astronomik.com/en/home
http://www.gerdneumann.net/
MSB Software & Astroart Camera control and Image processing software
http://www.msb-astroart.com/