Hi
This is my most ambitious project so far. I've seen zillions of pictures taken of NGC 5907 alone. 99,9% of them - in the field, there's galaxy only . Since I read somewhere and then saw there was a hideously faint stream around the galaxy, I decided THIS is my project. I adore either shooting things no one else does, or in a way no one else does. The galaxy itself is nothing special - rather popular, beautiful, edge positioned, like the Needle in Coma Verenices (NGC 4565). But the streams around are quite a different thing. I could not not see any of them at all even after 30 hours of imaging. Funny! So I turned on my stubbornness in turbo mode and kept shooting till I could see some faint structures...in a cost of too much noise. So at last - it took me around 2 years and 23 nights of shooting and much more of post processing attempts, to spit out this final picture. Interesting part of what I read in the ~pedias, there is no consent of how many these streams really are. When discovered and described fist, they were 2. Recent pictures show...just one
So - technical details
Red, Blue, Green channels taken 2 hours each.
Ha - 10 hours total.
Luminance - 799 subs -66 hrs 30 minutes...and some deleted...
Overall exposure 82 hrs 30 mins.
Many thanks to
Ivan Raichev "Sektor", who separated the main image drom the stars for me.Well - that's it! sigh...
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