NGC 1365 (For)

NGC 1365 (For)

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Date/Site: 24., 25. and 26. January 2014, Astrofarm at the Hacienda los Andes, Chile
Exposure/
Filter
LRGB: each channel 6 x 900 seconds (-20°C)
Camera: SBIG STL11000 with Astronomik type II-filters
Optics/
Instrument:
Astro-Physics 175mm f/8 StarFire EDF triplet refractor with flattener on AP1200 GTO
Guiding: Lodestar attached to a 61mm-finder,
focusing: Robofocus and FocusMax,
image acquisition: CCD-Commander and MaximDL 5,
calibration and processing: PixInsight 1.8

In the evening the galaxy already was west of the meridian. I didn't want to image too low, so I spread imaging over several nights and switched to an object higher up in the second half of the night.

© Friedhelm Hübner, last revision:  03.12.2023