Imaging telescopes or lenses: Meade LX200 8" GPS
Imaging cameras: Atik Cameras Atik 383 L+ Color
Mounts: Meade Equatorial Wedge on Tripod
Guiding telescopes or lenses: Meade ETX70-AT
Guiding cameras: Meade DSI Pro 2
Focal reducers: f6.3 focal reducer/field flattener Meade
Software: Fitswork4 · Adobe Photoshop CS6 · Meade AutoStar Suite / Envisage
Filters: Meade LPR
Dates:May 6, 2016
Frames:Meade LPR: 24x300" -20C bin 1x1
Integration: 2.0 hours
Darks: ~2
Bias: ~10
Avg. Moon age: 29.18 days
Avg. Moon phase: 0.14%
Temperature: 16.00
Astrometry.net job: 1067074
RA center: 13h 37' 28"
DEC center: +8° 53' 31"
Pixel scale: 1.926 arcsec/pixel
Orientation: 178.589 degrees
Field radius: 0.426 degrees
Resolution: 1237x999
Locations: Home Observatory, Syke, Niedersachsen, Germany
Caldwell 45 is a spiral galaxy ca. 70 million lightyears away, spread over 150 million ly. Magn. 11
The visible spiral arms are rich of new star forming regions (the little knots, best seen at high res.)
The very faint outer arms of this galaxy are not yet visible.
I need to add more light, perhabs using special filter, like Ha
thanks for watching !
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