NGC2336 (Michael Feigenbaum)

Celestial hemisphere: Northern · Constellation: Camelopardalis (Cam) · Contains: NGC 2336

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Here we have a second try with this Omegon veTEC432m camera. Still no material response from the manufacturer about some questions I had about the camera. With the moon nearly full, I will try some more experimentation with gain settings and see if I can learn something on my own. But as of now, I have not had nice clean masters come out of sets of integrations. There is a good amount of amp glow (calibrates out) and lot of noise generally and that is the case even with rather large numbers of subs. I tried going a little bit shorter on the exposures but did not really see any advantage to that.

So the plan is to play with it some more and to see what Sharpcap can do to help figure out good settings with this sensor and do one more image but changing to f/10 to see if I can make it work like I hoped it would.

Back to the image at hand, this galaxy is NGC2336 in Camelopardalis. According the the Wikipedia entry, this is a big, barred spiral measuring about 200,000 ly in diameter and lying about 100 million light years away. There are a lot of Hii regions that can even be discerned in this image without Ha integration. I count 8 arms in this one too. Pretty spectacular even if not done very well as in this image.

But this is fun and I have learned quite a bit about doing some longer focal length imaging. So no matter if I figure this camera out, use my other cameras or buy one of the great new cameras just being introduced, I think the experiment has been worthwhile.

Comments and criticism always welcome and clear skies!

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Astrometry.net job	4254334
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RA (center)	07h27m04s.19
RA (top/left)	07h32m29s.24
RA (top/right)	07h21m40s.27
RA (bottom/right)	07h21m48s.40
RA (bottom/left)	07h32m18s.80

Dec (center)	+80°10′34″.5
Dec (top/left)	+80°18′41″.4
Dec (top/right)	+80°18′47″.5
Dec (bottom/right)	+80°02′08″.4
Dec (bottom/left)	+80°02′02″.10

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