NGC 4945 in Centaurus

Now that I finally have the LX200R tracking properly, and I had a clear night last night, I had a go at imaging this spiral galaxy. As you can see I had a problem with an internal reflection from a bright object just out of field. I could have manually edited it out, but this was really a test run with the QHY8 TEC Cooled camera on the 12" scope. Now that it is tracking properly my stars are no longer elongated.

The galaxy is almost side on to us. It is 11.7 million light years away.   

The image is a stack of 15 x 5 min exposures and 5 x 5min darks. No Flats. It really needs more data, but clear skies are few and far between at the moment.