NGC 4038 (Crv)

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
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.

© Friedhelm Hübner, last revision:  03.12.2023