Celestial hemisphere:  Northern  ·  Constellation: Leo (Leo)  ·  Contains:  HD89086  ·  NGC 3185  ·  NGC 3187  ·  NGC 3189  ·  NGC 3190  ·  NGC 3193
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Hickson 44, Doug Gray
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Hickson 44

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Hickson 44

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From Wikipedia:
Hickson 44 (HCG 44) is a group of galaxies in the constellation Leo. As Arp 316, a part of this group is also designated as group of galaxies in the Atlas of Peculiar Galaxies.

Captured back in April/May. I have had trouble with my flat frames in the past, and actually decided to crop this one a bit to avoid a poorly corrected dust spot. This is the first image with a new set of flats taken with a Pegasus Flatmaster 150. It was an improvement over the prior set, but still not perfect.

This is also the first image in quite some time that I did not use Starnet++ on. It confused many small galaxies with stars, so I eventually gave up. It turns out Topaz is not great on denoising images with stars, so I ended up with a lot of small tails and halos.

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Hickson 44, Doug Gray

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