Celestial hemisphere:  Southern  ·  Constellation: Volans (Vol)  ·  Contains:  NGC 2434  ·  NGC 2442  ·  PGC 100030  ·  PGC 21323  ·  PGC 21373  ·  PGC 21406  ·  PGC 21426  ·  PGC 21457  ·  PGC 279613
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NGC 2442 The Meathook Galaxy, Daniel Petzen
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NGC 2442 The Meathook Galaxy

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NGC 2442 The Meathook Galaxy, Daniel Petzen
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NGC 2442 The Meathook Galaxy

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With a massive big moon up (94%), I looked for objects as far away from the moon as possible and decided to go for NGC 2442, the Meathook Galaxy. It's tiny, roughly 5x4 arcminutes. It's also quite dim at an apparent amgitude of 11.2. I managed to get 36 4 minute exposures before thick clouds rolled in. I was aiming for 4 hours integration time. I had two dodgy exposures where the guiding had gone a bit haywire, but I forgot to remove them and WBP in Pixinsight registered them all, so I got 2h 24 minutes integration time in the end. I think it's a very decent result with a full moon and just shy of 2.5h integration.

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