NGC 2903 in LRGB (and asteroid 447 Valentine) (Volker Gutsmann)

Celestial hemisphere: Northern · Constellation: Leo (Leo) · Contains: NGC 2903

NGC 2903 in LRGB (and asteroid 447 Valentine), Volker Gutsmann

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NGC 2903 in LRGB (and asteroid 447 Valentine)

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NGC 2903 in LRGB (and asteroid 447 Valentine)

It has been a while since my last image. Finally, the clouds and moon are gone.

NGC2903 is a barred spiral galaxy, roughly 30 million ly away. Two nights summed up to 8.5 hours of exposure. Stars are a bit bloated due to unsteady guiding caused by wind. However, I quite like the results in both detail and color.

Luminance was stacked and deconvoluted, then combined with the RGB image with the LRGB combination in PI. Image was cropped with final touches in LR.

Update: a gif and some info of the asteroid is in Version C

Stay well in these crazy times!

Volker

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Description: I stumbled across this bycatch, 447 Valentine, a minor planet belonging to the main belt asteriods. The asteroid is just right of the galaxy. Animation was build from all 68 calibrated, aligned images from the luminance channel. Images were taken during two nights, therefore the gap.

I identified the asteroid using the JPL site https://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/sbfind.cgi#results.

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