NGC 2685, The Helix Galaxy (Bob Rucker)

Celestial hemisphere: Northern · Constellation: Ursa Major (UMa) · Contains: Helix Galaxy · NGC 2685

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NGC 2685, The Helix Galaxy

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NGC 2685, The Helix Galaxy

I decided to jump into the deep end of the pool for my second target with the new EdgeHD 8. NGC 2685 is a fascinating Polar Ring galaxy. After seeing other images of this target, I decided I had to give it a whirl. This object is probably better suited to even larger telescopes, but I tried to bring out as much detail as possible through the following techniques:

•   Image at f/10
•   Long total integration time
•   Dither aggressively and frequently
•   Drizzle integration at 2X

Imaged was cropped to accentuate the galaxy. I’m loving this new telescope!

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Description: Tweaked colors.

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Description: This is a tough galaxy! This attempt incorporates BXCT AI4 along with some additional revisions to the stretches to coax out some more details.

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Description: Some more reprocessing while clouded in.

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Description: Reprocessing some old data to see if I can improve things using some of the new Pixinsight tools.

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Status	Advanced success
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Astrometry.net job	9545986
PixInsight job	8ND6BUZB65BEGGT24YJCO0QKUGEL4JDB
PixInsight queue size	n/a
PixInsight stage	TASK_LOG

RA (center)	08h55m34s.510
RA (top/left)	08h55m52s.341
RA (top/right)	08h53m44s.690
RA (bottom/right)	08h55m15s.948
RA (bottom/left)	08h57m23s.766

Dec (center)	+58°43′56″.80
Dec (top/left)	+58°58′35″.35
Dec (top/right)	+58°39′42″.60
Dec (bottom/right)	+58°29′19″.12
Dec (bottom/left)	+58°48′06″.42

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