NGC 2997 is a face-on unbarred spiral galaxy about 40 million light-years away in the faint southern
constellation of Antlia and it is inclined at an angle of 40° to our line of sight from the Earth.

Orion Optics UK AG12 F3.8
Starlightxpress TRIUS PRO-814 Midi Combi PRO Blue Edition incl. CFW & OAG unit
FLI Atlas Focuser
LHaRGB = 360, 60, 50, 50 50min total 9.5hrs*
Astronomik Deep-Sky LRGB filters
-20C chip temp, flats used but no dark frames.
Focal length 1120mm
Image scale 0.68"/pix
Guide Camera: Starlightxpress Lodestar PRO

Comments
Data collected over two nights 28 Feb & 1 Mar 2024, in good seeing**

*Thanks to Steve Crouch for kindly allowing me to use his image of NGC2997 to augment my thin colour data

**NB: No drizzle guide, upscaling, Blur Exterminator or other AI based sharpening, was used on this
data, this is the native 0.68"/pix image scale, using just traditional Richardson Lucy deconvolution.

Seeing (FWHM) quality at Eagleview:
Excellent: <1.6"
Good: 1.6" - 1.9"
Acceptable: 2.0" - 2.3"
Poor: >2.3"
Most common FWHM value: 1.6"/1.7"

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/