NGC 4631 and NGC 4656 (Whale and Hockey Stick Galaxies) and neighbors (darkdesertdome)

Celestial hemisphere: Northern · Constellation: Canes Venatici (CVn) · Contains: NGC 4627 · NGC 4631 · NGC 4656 · NGC 4657 · PGC 100706 · PGC 100707 · PGC 139992 · PGC 1932038 · PGC 1939685 · PGC 1946082 · PGC 1946388 · PGC 1947993 · PGC 1949311 · PGC 1949601 · PGC 1952464 · PGC 1956705 · PGC 1956992 · PGC 1960468 · PGC 1961018 · PGC 1962195 · PGC 1964488 · PGC 1965854 · PGC 1966549 · PGC 1968805 · PGC 1969714 · PGC 1970315 · PGC 1970316 · PGC 1970621 · PGC 1971469 · PGC 1973273 · And 34 more.

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NGC 4631 and NGC 4656 (Whale and Hockey Stick Galaxies) and neighbors

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NGC 4631 and NGC 4656 (Whale and Hockey Stick Galaxies) and neighbors

We've had hazy, dirty skies and WAY too many days in a row above 110 deg. F (43.3 deg. C) in Phoenix (now 31 days in a row and counting, as of July 30, 2023... yes, 31 days)... making it impossible to shoot anything new this month from my yard. So I decided to reprocess some old data, just to see how it would turn out using current techniques. This broadband image was captured under Bortle 1 skies, unfiltered. Total integration time is very short, but the cleanness of the data helped compensate for the short acquisition time, at least in part.

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Status	Advanced success
Started	...
Astrometry.net job	8173044
PixInsight job	JRNY5Q7ZZ0Y5FAAAQSRUK7PX944KMGN7
PixInsight queue size	n/a
PixInsight stage	TASK_LOG

RA (center)	12h42m46s.90
RA (top/left)	12h36m15s.47
RA (top/right)	12h42m42s.69
RA (bottom/right)	12h49m13s.29
RA (bottom/left)	12h42m51s.43

Dec (center)	+32°23′18″.10
Dec (top/left)	+32°57′45″.1
Dec (top/right)	+30°54′05″.2
Dec (bottom/right)	+31°47′40″.9
Dec (bottom/left)	+33°52′36″.9

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NGC 4631 and NGC 4656 (Whale and Hockey Stick Galaxies) and neighbors

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