NGC3628 with Newt and New Tools (Ron Crouch)

Celestial hemisphere: Northern · Constellation: Leo (Leo) · Contains: IC 2745 · NGC 3628

NGC3628 with Newt and New Tools, Ron Crouch

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NGC3628 with Newt and New Tools

Between March 15 and April 12 of 2021 Newt pointed at NGC 3628 aka the Hamburger Galaxy for a total of 21 hours. 11 hours L and 10 total RGB. used 180sec subs uniformly. He goal at the time was to try and detect the faint tidal streams from this crazy bright location north of Dallas Texas. Camera was the old QSI 6120 at -20C. Today I continued the old data/new tools adventure and made this RGBL. Resolution seems a bit better and noise is under better control. The greenish cast of the original post here is suppressed but the blue glare from the 7.1 mag star now in lower right remains. Not sure if the OTA had the card board baffles it does now or now. That old QSI CCD with tiny pixels does an ok job on galaxies at the cost of loss of cadence compared to the current cmos camera. Thanks again for looking and bearing with me as I try and learn new tools.

Looking at the result I could certainly be more aggressive with noise reduction and darken the image more but I did not want to artificially smooth too far as the many tiny tidal tail galaxy spots was what I hoped to see.

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