Celestial hemisphere:  Northern  ·  Constellation: Canes Venatici (CVn)  ·  Contains:  NGC 4627  ·  NGC 4631  ·  Whale Galaxy
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Whale Galaxy [NGC 4631], Marc Whitsett
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Whale Galaxy [NGC 4631]

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Whale Galaxy [NGC 4631]

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NGC 4631 (Whale Galaxy)  is a Galaxy in Canes Venatici and is classified as Barred Spiral (Bcd) according to the Hubble and de Vaucouleurs galaxy morphological classification
[see [url]https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hubble_-_de_Vaucouleurs_Galaxy_Morphology_Diagram.png]

It is frequently imaged with the Hockey Stick galaxy in a wider field image. I barely got the Hockey Stick onto the imaging frame so I cropped it out and am using this image only of the Whale.

The data is terrible for this image as it was:

  1. imaged with moonlight everywhere, and

  2. the wildfire smoke resulted in hazy light frame images.

Also, my flats were tossed due to technical issues so only dark frames were used.

I had a difficult time in post arriving at this image. But posting even "borderline" images reminds me that this is a difficult hobby!

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Whale Galaxy [NGC 4631], Marc Whitsett