NGC4535 (Michael Feigenbaum)

Celestial hemisphere: Northern · Constellation: Virgo (Vir) · Contains: NGC 4535 · PGC 1340665 · PGC 1342675 · PGC 1342835 · PGC 41860 · PGC 41878

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Here we have a try at NGC4535, a beautiful nearly face-on barred spiral galaxy located about 54 million light years away in Virgo. This is a member of the Virgo Cluster. It is about 117,000 light years in diameter.

I shot this over several nights in April while battling uncharacteristically cloudy conditions here in Arizona.

When I was processing this, my focus was on trying to do a better job with the background. In this image, there are a lot of small galaxies that I wanted to show. I did not want to do too much with the background so that these might shine a little bit. The use of an OAG has really helped with guiding and I think has allowed me to pull more details without forcing things. I followed a similar strategy with the incorporation of the Ha integration. It seems to me, and in sync with a fellow imager who is a superb practitioner of our craft, that it is tough to pull those regions out of a smaller galaxy and again, I didn't want to force that at all.

In any case, I see this one as another small step forward and I hope you like it!

CS and good health!

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Status	Advanced success
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Astrometry.net job	4428063
PixInsight job	OAYYNXGRIYL2IUEH1L6KAN0NN2SU8MIH
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RA (center)	12h34m21s.691
RA (top/left)	12h35m10s.300
RA (top/right)	12h33m35s.971
RA (bottom/right)	12h33m33s.416
RA (bottom/left)	12h35m07s.358

Dec (center)	+08°12′07″.11
Dec (top/left)	+08°20′28″.69
Dec (top/right)	+08°21′20″.15
Dec (bottom/right)	+08°03′45″.27
Dec (bottom/left)	+08°02′54″.29

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