NGC 4038 (Crv)
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Date/Site: |
March 22., 2015, Astrofarm at the Hacienda los Andes, Chile |
Exposure/
Filter: |
RGB: each 5 x 600 seconds
L: 6 x 600 seconds (-30°C) |
Camera: |
FLI PL16803 with Astrodon II-filters |
Optics/
Instrument: |
TEC 500mm f/9 RC on AP1600 GTO |
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Guiding: Lodestar on MOAG,
focusing: FLI Atlas and FocusMax,
image acquisition: MaximDL 5,
calibration: MaximDL, processing: PixInsight 1.8 |
Although the Antennae were directly overhead and the sky was cloudfree during image acquisition, I later realized I had by far not enough frames for the weak tidal streamers of the colliding galaxies to get well out of the background.
But I dearly wanted to shoot Centaurus A and I saw clouds moving in from the west, so I sacrificed the imaging time that was originally planned for the Antennae.
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© Friedhelm Hübner, last revision: 03.12.2023