Celestial hemisphere:  Northern  ·  Constellation: Coma Berenices (Com)  ·  Contains:  IC 3571  ·  NGC 4562  ·  NGC 4565  ·  Needle Galaxy
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NGC 4565 and NGC 45!, Tom Gray
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NGC 4565 and NGC 45!

Revision title: Combined data with 41x120s L from DSI Pro III camera

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NGC 4565 and NGC 45!

Revision title: Combined data with 41x120s L from DSI Pro III camera

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Description

I have a succession of recent images where I have managed to cut off a neighbour - nothing personal just poor framing. I must investigate astrometric solving to see if I can prevent this, but expect I just need to pay more attention!

NGC 4565 - the spindle galaxy is the ‘star’ (actually 1 trillion) of this image.  A bright core is surrounded by spiral arms, seen edge on by us, with a strong central dust lane, showing knots and streamers, giving way to blue star clouds towards the periphery of the disk. 

I imaged this during a period of poor seeing and transparency, during our ‘freak’ period of clear skies Guiding was not special with a typical RMS of 1.5”/px so there is some blurring of the fine detail. Captured using APT, calibrated in Nebulosity and processed in Startools, I had to work on background noise and artefacts, and provide slight de-warping to the stars.

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  • NGC 4565 and NGC 45!, Tom Gray
    Original
  • NGC 4565 and NGC 45!, Tom Gray
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    NGC 4565 and NGC 45!, Tom Gray
    C

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Title: Combined data with 41x120s L from DSI Pro III camera

Description: Playing around combining data from my cameras. Includes L data from an image captured using my DSI III Pro in April 2021.

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C

Title: Astrosharpened

Description: Retrospective sharpening using George Lowry's amazing Deep Sky Detail Astrosharp AI tool
Pre-sharpened but final processed image using traditional tools in mouseover

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NGC 4565 and NGC 45!, Tom Gray