The Perseus Cluster of Galaxies Close-up (Vitali)

Celestial hemisphere: Northern · Constellation: Perseus (Per) · Contains: IC 1907 · NGC 1267 · NGC 1268 · NGC 1270 · NGC 1271 · NGC 1272 · NGC 1273 · NGC 1274 · NGC 1275 · NGC 1276 · NGC 1277 · NGC 1278 · NGC 1279 · NGC 1281 · NGC 1282 · NGC 1283 · PGC 12292 · PGC 12294 · PGC 12295 · PGC 12316 · PGC 12336 · PGC 12353 · PGC 12358 · PGC 12360 · PGC 12378 · PGC 12386 · PGC 12397 · PGC 12405 · PGC 12409 · PGC 12414 · And 28 more.

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The Perseus Cluster of Galaxies Close-up

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The Perseus Cluster of Galaxies Close-up

The Perseus cluster (Abell 426) is one of my favorite deep sky objects. The central galaxy is NGC1275, which is a gigantic elliptical galaxy with a huge black hole in the center and a well known radio source (Perseus A).

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Vitali

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Description: Attempt to reveal more details in NGC1275. PhotometricColorCalibration.

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Description: Experimental PixInsight workflow. ColorCalibration using NGC1275 as a white reference.

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Description: Color calibration using AutoColor script by Hartmut Bornemann.

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Description: After looking at an excellent image from Vlad, I've realized that the stars in the original image are too big. So I've selected 371 frames (out of 715) with FWHM <= 2" for this revision. MorphologicalTransformation has been applied to slightly reduce stars.

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RA (center)	03h19m21s.430
RA (top/left)	03h20m35s.350
RA (top/right)	03h18m07s.820
RA (bottom/right)	03h18m08s.102
RA (bottom/left)	03h20m34s.742

Dec (center)	+41°29′58″.86
Dec (top/left)	+41°38′44″.87
Dec (top/right)	+41°38′43″.51
Dec (bottom/right)	+41°21′09″.99
Dec (bottom/left)	+41°21′10″.73

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