Celestial hemisphere:  Northern  ·  Constellation: Canes Venatici (CVn)  ·  Contains:  NGC 5033
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NGC 5033, Andrew Barton
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NGC 5033

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NGC 5033, Andrew Barton
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NGC 5033

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This is a galaxy I have wanted to photograph for some time. Happily, I had an opportunity to take data on the Schulman Telescope at the University of Arizona Mt Lemmon Sky Center when NGC 5033 was high in the sky. I took data over two different evenings about a month apart. Unfortunately, my first data set had too much cloud haze and I just couldn't make it work. The second data set was much cleaner. From these two groups of data, I learned that you can't always use inferior data to improve higher quality data.

This image was made with the following sub exposures (2nd data set only).

Red: 9 x 360 sec

Green: 7 x 360 sec

Blue: 5 x 360 sec

I had hoped to get more blue but my session was shut down for lightning lockdown.

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NGC 5033, Andrew Barton

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