AstroBin - NGC 4565, Needle Galaxy (dvdearden)

NGC 4565, Needle Galaxy

Contains:

Imaging telescopes or lenses: Meade 4501

Imaging cameras: Meade DSI II C

Mounts: CG5

Guiding telescopes or lenses: Orion ShortTube 80 f/5

Guiding cameras: Meade DSI

Focal reducers: Antares 0.5x Reducer

Software: Nebulosity, PHD guiding, photoshop, iLanga AstroPlanner

Accessories: HB Home-built TEC1-12706 cooler

Resolution: 745x622

Dates: May 8, 2012

Locations: Mapleton Lateral Observatory

Frames: 25x300"

Integration: 2.1 hours

Avg. Moon age: 16.92 days

Avg. Moon phase: 94.85%

RA center: 12:36:15.940

DEC center: +25:59:55.878

Pixel scale: 2.99 arcsec/pixel

Orientation: 122.62 degrees

Field width: 37.06 arcminutes

Field height: 30.91 arcminutes

Date: 8 May 2012
Subject: NGC 4565, Needle Galaxy
Scope: Meade 4501, 0.5x Antares telereducer
Filter: none
Mount: CG-5 (Synta motors)
Guiding: Orion ST80 + 0.5x Antares telereducer + DSI Ic + PHD
Camera: DSI IIc (cooled at 2 A, 6.0 V)
Acquisition: Nebulosity 3.0.3
Exposure: 25 x 300 s
Stacking: Neb 3, bias included, normalize first, align, 1.5 SD stack
Processing: Digital development with sharpening, power stretch, Keller stretch, a little unsharp mask and a little saturation boost in N3, CS5 levels, healing brush to fix bad pixels.