Celestial hemisphere:  Southern  ·  Constellation: Corvus (Crv)  ·  Contains:  Antennae Galaxies  ·  NGC 4038  ·  NGC 4039
NGC4038/9 The Antennae Galaxies, Gary Plummer
NGC4038/9 The Antennae Galaxies
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NGC4038/9 The Antennae Galaxies

NGC4038/9 The Antennae Galaxies, Gary Plummer
NGC4038/9 The Antennae Galaxies
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NGC4038/9 The Antennae Galaxies

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NGC4038/9 Or the Antennae galaxies are a pair of interacting galaxies 45 to 65 Million light years from us.

This image was captured remotely using a Planewave CDK431mm scope at 2.9Mtr focal length, a FLI CCD Camera at 4,-96 x 4,096 pixels. On a Planewave mount.

12 x 5 minute exposures on each of Red, Green and Blue filters were calibrated and combined. a pseudo luminance was extracted, noise reduced and sharpened then recombined with the noise reduced RGB master. Further processing was carried out to get this final composition; hope you like it!

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NGC4038/9 The Antennae Galaxies, Gary Plummer