Imaging telescopes or lenses: Astro-Physics RH-305
Imaging cameras: SBIG STX 16803
Mounts: Astro-Physics 1600 with Absolute Encoders
Guiding telescopes or lenses: Astro-Physics RH-305
Guiding cameras: Lodestar
Software: Software Bisque The Sky X Pro · Focus Max · PixInsight 1.8 · Cyanogen Maxim DL5 ver. 5.24
Filters: Astrodon Luminance Tru-Balance E-Series Gen 2 · Astrodon Red Tru-Balance E-Series Gen 2 · Astrodon Blue Tru-Balance E-Series Gen 2 · Astrodon Green Tru-Balance E-Series Gen 2
Dates:March 22, 2018
Frames:
Astrodon Blue Tru-Balance E-Series Gen 2: 22x600" bin 1x1
Astrodon Green Tru-Balance E-Series Gen 2: 18x600" bin 1x1
Astrodon Luminance Tru-Balance E-Series Gen 2: 27x600" bin 1x1
Astrodon Red Tru-Balance E-Series Gen 2: 22x600" bin 1x1
Integration: 14.8 hours
Avg. Moon age: 5.08 days
Avg. Moon phase: 26.51%
Astrometry.net job: 1991861
RA center: 12h 1' 54"
DEC center: -18° 52' 58"
Pixel scale: 0.995 arcsec/pixel
Orientation: 1.368 degrees
Field radius: 0.274 degrees
Resolution: 1401x1402
Locations: Deep Sky West Remote Obsevatory (DSW), Rowe, New Mexico, United States
NGC 4038 - From APOD....
This galaxy is having a bad millennium. In fact, the past 100 million years haven't been so good, and probably the next billion or so will be quite tumultuous. Visible on the upper left, NGC 4038 used to be a normal spiral galaxy, minding its own business, until NGC 4039, toward its right, crashed into it. The evolving wreckage, known famously as the Antennae, is pictured above. As gravity restructures each galaxy, clouds of gas slam into each other, bright blue knots of stars form, massive stars form and explode, and brown filaments of dust are strewn about. Eventually the two galaxies will converge into one larger spiral galaxy. Such collisions are not unusual, and even our own Milky Way Galaxy has undergone several in the past and is predicted to collide with our neighboring Andromeda Galaxy in a few billion years.
Authors & editors: Robert Nemiroff (MTU) & Jerry Bonnell (UMCP)
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