Celestial hemisphere:  Southern  ·  Constellation: Centaurus (Cen)  ·  Contains:  NGC 4696
Abell 3526, Michael Hansen
Abell 3526
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Abell 3526

Abell 3526, Michael Hansen
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Abell 3526

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My first try with the iTelescope system. I have used the T9 telescope (RCOS 12.5" - Ritchey-Chrétien Cassegrain with an SBIG ST8 XME camera) in Australia. The images are taken in as two Lum of 300 and 600 s exposure and a set of BVR images for color and photometry. each of 600 sec exposure..

I will definitely need more time on this object in order to get finer details.

The further work, when it will be possible involves more Lum data for tri-color images, and at least two more images in BVR in order to remove the worst noise and cosmics.

All of the images has been calibrated basically in IRAF, involving the LaPlacian Cosmic removal tool and bias, dark and flats. They have further received a hot pixel kernel in MaxIm DL.

The two lum images has been SD Mask combined in Maxim DL and hence color combined.

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Abell 3526, Michael Hansen