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Antennae - NGC 4038 - NGC 4039, Yann-Eric BOYEAU
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Antennae - NGC 4038 - NGC 4039

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Hi,

Thank you for watching my version of the antennae !

I find this galactic collision to be one of the most spectacular scene of the deep sky. This is a quite challenging target for my small refractor and my average sky quality.

I tried to increase the integration time to get some good data, unfortunately I had below average seeing condition in April during 3 nights of imaging. I added some data from 2 other nights from 2019 . I did not manage to get crispy details but many interesting things are already visible.

One of my most pleasant time with this image was post-processing : everything went smoothly and the colors I was looking for, popped up naturally, I was really happy to get those yellows, red pearls, one blue side. I did not have the colors in the tails but I was already happy to get the tails so clearly.

Image is a crop of the Drizzle x2 version reduced at 66%.

Version B is the full at native sensor resolution. NGC4027 and NGC4024 are also in the frame.

L 72x300s

RGB 24:24:24x300s

Thank you again for reading

YE

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Antennae - NGC 4038 - NGC 4039, Yann-Eric BOYEAU

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