NGC 6744 is a galaxy in the constellation Pavo. The galaxy has beautiful spiral arms, which attracted my attention and I spent 4 hours collecting the light coming from this 28 million light-years distant deep space object.
| Telescope | Meade 10" |
| Aperture | 254 mm |
| Focal length | 2097 mm |
| Mount | MK 100K |
| Autoguiding | MGEN 240 mm |
| Camera | ZWO 071 @-10°C |
| Corrector | TS 0.67 reducer |
| Filters | none |
| Exposure | 78x180s, Gain 95, bin 1x1, |
| Date | 2022-05-28 |
I have been chasing this planet for a very long time. Saturn is the most beautiful planet in the Solar System and yet I haven’t been able to photograph it properly. This is mainly caused by the fact that in the last years this planet had very low southern declination (it has been quite close to the horizon). Therefore, I was not able to capture it from home, and during my travels, to southern places, I never had a suitable telescope with me. Finally, I got an opportunity. I was in the southern hemisphere, specifically in Namibia, and I rented Meade 10″ Schmidt-Cassegrain telescope. The first night I photographed Centarus A Galaxy. Early in the morning around 4 a.m. I came to park to scope, but before that, I removed the ASI071 camera. Focal length 3130 mm I prolonged by TeleVue 2.5 Barlow lens to nearly 8 m, attached ZWO ASI485, and captured 2000 frames. Then I selected 25% best frames and here we go:
| Telescope | Meade 10" |
| Aperture | 254 mm |
| Focal length | 7825 mm |
| Mount | MK 100K |
| Autoguiding | non |
| Camera | ZWO ASI485MC |
| Corrector | TeleVue Barlow 2.5x |
| Filters | non |
| Exposure | 2000x180ms, Gain 222, 25% selected, |
| Date | 2022-05-28 |
NGC 5128 Centaurus A is a galaxy, which can be found in cancellation, you can guess which one, Centarus. This galaxy is not visible from Europe or from the northern hemisphere. If anyone wants to observe or photograph it, he has to go south. And this is precisely what I did. I went to Namibia, specifically to an Astrofarm Kiripotib. I went there with a plan and this Galaxy was my first and primary target. As for most galaxies, one needs a long focal length. Therefore, I rented a telescope there. Specifically, it was Meade 10″. I brought my own focal reducer TS 0.67 and attached my old ASI071. I made in a total of 133 pictures, each 3 minutes long, and stacked them together. This means nearly 7 hours of exposure time. The dust cloud blocking the light from the galaxy really popped out with the little help of deconvolution.
| Telescope | Meade 10" |
| Aperture | 254 mm |
| Focal length | 2097 mm |
| Mount | MK 100K |
| Autoguiding | MGEN 240 mm |
| Camera | ZWO 071 @-10°C |
| Corrector | TS 0.67 reducer |
| Filters | non |
| Exposure | 133x180s, Gain 95, bin 1x1, |
| Date | 2022-05-27 |
