Imaging telescopes or lenses: TEC 140 APO FL
Imaging cameras: Atik 460EX Mono
Mounts: Astro-Physics Mach1GTO
Guiding cameras: Lodestar X2
Software: Sequence Generator Pro · PixInsight 1.8
Filters: Baader Planetarium B 1.25" · Baader Planetarium G 1.25" · Baader Planetarium R 1.25"
Accessory: QHYCCD OFF AXIS GUIDER
Dates:May 5, 2019 , May 8, 2019 , May 10, 2019
Frames:
Baader Planetarium B 1.25": 36x180" -10C bin 1x1
Baader Planetarium G 1.25": 36x180" -10C bin 1x1
Baader Planetarium R 1.25": 36x180" -10C bin 1x1
Integration: 5.4 hours
Avg. Moon age: 3.30 days
Avg. Moon phase: 15.74%
Bortle Dark-Sky Scale: 6.00
Astrometry.net job: 2728354
RA center: 12h 56' 43"
DEC center: +21° 40' 47"
Pixel scale: 0.969 arcsec/pixel
Orientation: 167.640 degrees
Field radius: 0.220 degrees
Resolution: 1280x1012
Locations: Home, Seattle, WA, United States
Data source: Backyard
M64: A spiral galaxy in Canes Venatici with a prominent dust band near its core, approximately 17 million light years distant.
Significantly smaller than the Milky Way, M64 is unique in that its outer regions rotate in the opposite direction of the galaxy's core. This is suspected to be due to M64 absorbing a smaller galaxy perhaps a billion or more years ago.
I seem to have some issue going on with my color processing that is leading to my color-calibrated RGB images starting off with a sulfur-yellow hue. I'm able to correct it more or less but it is an issue I'd like to track down and at this point seems unique to the TEC, from which this is the second RGB image I've processed.
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