Imaging telescopes or lenses: TEC-140
Imaging cameras: QSI 690 WSG-8
Mounts: 10 Micron GM2000 HPS II UP
Guiding cameras: Starlight Xpress Lodestar X2
Software: Sequence Generator Pro · Adobe Photoshop 6 CS · Pixinsight 1.8
Filters: Astrodon Tru-Balance LRGB E-Series Gen 2 Blue · Astrodon Tru-Balance LRGB E-Series Gen 2 Green · Astrodon Tru-Balance LRGB E-Series Gen 2 Red · Astrodon Tru-Balance LRGB E-Series Gen 2 Luminance
Dates:March 3, 2019
Frames:
Astrodon Tru-Balance LRGB E-Series Gen 2 Blue: 24x600" bin 1x1
Astrodon Tru-Balance LRGB E-Series Gen 2 Green: 24x600" bin 1x1
Astrodon Tru-Balance LRGB E-Series Gen 2 Luminance: 36x600" bin 1x1
Astrodon Tru-Balance LRGB E-Series Gen 2 Red: 24x600" bin 1x1
Integration: 18.0 hours
Avg. Moon age: 26.71 days
Avg. Moon phase: 8.75%
Astrometry.net job: 2565162
RA center: 10h 17' 59"
DEC center: +21° 51' 32"
Pixel scale: 0.744 arcsec/pixel
Orientation: 269.799 degrees
Field radius: 0.440 degrees
Resolution: 3319x2670
Locations: E-EyE, Fregenal de la Sierra, Extremadura, Spain
Data source: Unknown
Paul Hickson is a Canadian astronomer who, in 1994, published ‘Atlas of Compact Groups of Galaxies’ – discovered by searching of the Palomar Sky Survey prints. Hickson galaxy group number 44 is comprised of NGC 3190, NGC 3187, NGC 3193 and NGC 3185. Hickson 44 is located around 100 million light years away in the constellation of Leo. Three of the galaxies (NGC 3190, NGC 3187 & NGC 3193) are catalogued as object number 316 in Halton Arp’s ‘Atlas of Peculiar Galaxies’ (1966).
Numerous other galaxies of varying sizes can also be seen in this field
The Hickson 44 group was photographed between 7 February and 3 March 2019 from a remote imaging rig in Spain owned and operated by Barry Wilson and Steve Milne.
Capture details are as follows:
Telescope: TEC140
Camera: QSI 690
Filters: Astrodon
Mount: 10 Micron GM2000HPS
Lum: 36 x 600s
Red: 24 x 600s
Green: 24 x 600s
Blue: 24 x 600s
A total of 18 hours exposure.
Data capture: Steve Milne & Barry Wilson
Image Processing: Steve Milne
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