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| Object | NGC4038- The Antennae |
| Info |
NGC 4038 is actually 2 peculiar spiral galaxies colliding together. The object is 10.91 magnitude and lies in the constellation of Corvus near the border with Crater. It is one of the closest pairs of galaxies influencing each other. It's estimated distance is around 90 million L.y. |
| Date | Lum-6th/ RGB 9th/ 3/ 06 |
| Location | BayTop Observatory- Streaky Bay South Australia |
| Instrument | Vixen VC200L working @ f9/ 1800 FL 0.77arcsec/pixel |
| Mount | Celestron CI700 controlled by a Mel Bartels Goto Control System with Vexta PK264m-01b motors with a pulley and belt system |
| Camera (CCD) | Starlight Xpress HX916 monochrome CCD with Hm, made filter slider |
| Exposures | L: 100' R:35' G:35' B:35' [5' sub exposures all unbinned] No dark frames removed. Extinction factors applied . |
| Guiding | Orion 80ED refractor F7.5 with a Starlight Xpress MX515 CCD. Mounted via a side by side accessory plate. |
| Filters | Astronomik typeII clr rgb filters |
| Notes/ Conditions |
Conditions- Taking the lum conditions were very poor and guiding was erratic due to seeing and transparency. When taking the colour the moon was at 47% illumination causing colours to become what muted. There were severe gradients induced by the moons reflection entering the OT. Used PixinsightLe to reduce effect. This image has been reduced to 87% from the original and heavily cropped. |