Sculptor Pinwheel Galaxy

by Martin Junius

Objects in field: NGC 300

Equipment: Lacerta 12" f/4 Carbon Newton, QHYCCD QHY268 M

Integration: 15h 29m

IAS – Internationale Amateursternwarte e.V. – Hakos Observatory, Namibia IAS remote telescope “Dieter” Data acquisition: IAS remote team / Martin Junius Difficult processing with these data: separating stars and galaxy with StarXTerminator doesn’t work well here, too many artefacts. So all the stretching was done with the starfull images, with just a bit of star reduction on L, to preserve the…