Paul, I have recently started taking 12 hour exposures on all my images. I am currently working on a 36 hour narrowband image of NGC896 and NGC7635. We will see if that was worth the effort. Bernard -----Original Message----- From: az-observing-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:az-observing-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of pulind@xxxxx Sent: Monday, December 17, 2012 5:45 PM To: az-observing@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [AZ-Observing] Re: NGC247 Bernard, Great job. I'm not going to try to count galaxies. One question: Have you taken other exposures that were this long (like 12 hours)? Maybe this image should be called "The Miller Deep-Field"! Paul Lind ----- Original Message ----- From: "Bernard Miller" <bgmiller011@xxxxxxx> To: az-observing@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Saturday, December 15, 2012 1:45:13 PM Subject: [AZ-Observing] NGC247 Hi, The link below is to NGC247. It is a spiral galaxy about 11 Million light years away in the constellation of Cetus. It is part of the Sculptor group of galaxies, which includes NGC253. You can notice many of the background galaxies in the upper and lower right of the image. If you click on the "Full Size Uncropped" link below the picture you will see the original image where north is up. I posted a rotated and cropped version because I think the galaxy looks better viewed horizontal. http://www.azstarman.net/NGC247.htm Bernard -- See message header for info on list archives or unsubscribing, and please send personal replies to the author, not the list. -- See message header for info on list archives or unsubscribing, and please send personal replies to the author, not the list. -- See message header for info on list archives or unsubscribing, and please send personal replies to the author, not the list.