Celestial hemisphere:  Southern  ·  Constellation: Virgo (Vir)  ·  Contains:  M 104  ·  NGC 4594  ·  Sombrero Galaxy
M104: Sombrero Galaxy, ivnlpz
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M104: Sombrero Galaxy

M104: Sombrero Galaxy, ivnlpz
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M104: Sombrero Galaxy

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Description

The Sombrero Galaxy is a spiral galaxy in the constellation borders of Virgo and Corvus, being about 9.55 megaparsecs from our galaxy, within the local supercluster. It has a diameter of approximately 15 kiloparsecs, three-tenths the size of the Milky Way.

Preprocessing in PI:
- WBPP for calibration and cosmetization
- SubframeSelector to find best image by PSF signal
- StarAlignment
- NormalizeScaleGradient using 30% weight
- ImageIntegration
- IntegerResample to get bin2 images

Processing in PI:
- DynamicCrop
- DBE
- ChannelCombination to get RGB image
- PCC
- EZ soft stretch RGB and luminance

Postprocessing in PI:
- LRGBCombination
- CurvesTransformation
- TGVDenoise
- ACDNR
- MLT to slightly sharpen image
- LocalHistogramEqualization with RangeSelection masks
- final CurvesTransformation
- FastRotation

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