Description (wikipedia)NGC 3718, also called
Arp 214, is a
galaxy located approximately 52 million light years from Earth in the constellation
Ursa Major.
[4][2][5] It is either a lenticular or spiral galaxy.
[6] NGC 3718 has a warped, s-shape. This may be due to gravitational interaction between it and
NGC 3729, another spiral galaxy located 150,000 light-years away.
[7] NGC 3718 is a member of the
Ursa Major Cluster.
[8]Personal NoteQuite happy with this result and the fact that the twisted core of the galaxy with the dust bands came out nicely. Less happy about some of the stars as they seem to be a bit blown out and pixelated in their core. New approach here is to se regular masters for RGB and 2x drizzle for the Lum as that seem to bring out a little more detail with my set up. I might add some Ha at a later stage as there seem to be some reddish areas in the galaxy arms.
ProcessingChrominance: WBPP, autocrop, DBE, Linear Fit, RGB combination, Background Neutralisation, Photometric ColorCalibration, Deconvolution, Maskstretch, ArcsinhStretch, denoise, Local Histogram Transformation, curves, HDR-MT
Luminance: WBPP with 2xdrizzle, DBE, Deconvolution, denoise, Histogram Transformation, Curves, denoise, HDRM MST
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