Winter is not normally a good time for galaxies because the Milky Way is porminent in the sky, but while waiting for comet Lovejoy to rise, I used the time to spend a little exposure time on some bright galaxies.
Category Archives: deepsky
Supernova 2011DH in M51
NGC 4565
Move your mouse over the image to see annotations for some galaxies.
A larger version of this image which has been annotated with AVM headers can be opened in Microsoft WWT:ngc4565_150mm.jpg
Telescope:
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150mm f/5 Newtonian, Baader MPCC Coma Corrector |
Camera
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Nikon D200 |
Exposure:
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4x300s, ISO 800 |
Date:
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18th, April 2009 |
Processing:
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Preprocessing (Dark, Flat & Bias correction), Alignment & stacking in IRIS, histogram adjustment curves, color correction in Photoshop. |