M104 - Sombrero Galaxy (Phil Hoppes)

Celestial hemisphere: Southern · Constellation: Virgo (Vir) · Contains: HD109863 · HD109874 · HD109875 · HD109898 · HD109899 · HD109916 · HD110050 · HD110086 · HD110154 · HD110251 · HD110283 · HD110365 · M 104 · NGC 4594 · Sombrero Galaxy

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M104 - Sombrero Galaxy

Revision title: Updated Post Process with BXT and NXT this time

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M104 - Sombrero Galaxy

Revision title: Updated Post Process with BXT and NXT this time

Had a break in the clouds last night so I broke out the Vixen to try to get a nice shot of M104. I posted an image of this before from my Seestar but not my Vixen. All went fine until around 3am when the cloud gods decided to mess with me and wasted the last 19 subs I shot. Happens to all of us. Kind of like the Mick Jagger song, "You can't always get what you want but sometimes you get what you need". I wanted 70 subs but 51 will work.

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Title: Updated Post Process with BXT and NXT this time

Description: For some strange reason that escapes me BXT and NXT were not originally working with the .fit file. Fast forward one day and a full shutdown and reboot of my Mac and now all of the sudden things work. Don't ask me..... anyway, BXT in particular was able to enhance the nice dark band a little better and as always NXT really helps to clean up the background.

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RA (center)	12h40m01s.61
RA (top/left)	12h42m47s.20
RA (top/right)	12h40m38s.47
RA (bottom/right)	12h37m16s.70
RA (bottom/left)	12h39m24s.62

Dec (center)	-11°37′21″.10
Dec (top/left)	-12°03′32″.9
Dec (top/right)	-10°50′04″.8
Dec (bottom/right)	-11°11′05″.0
Dec (bottom/left)	-12°24′42″.4

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