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Galaxies under the Full Moon, Roland Christen
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Galaxies under the Full Moon

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Galaxies under the Full Moon

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NGC4038, NGC4039, NGC4027 with various fainter galaxies nearby.
Imaged with full Moon nearby, causing bright background and gradients. Image was dark and flat fielded, however the flat frame failed to fully work because the filter wheel on this camera does not position perfectly each time. Therefore one edge is over compensated and the other is under compensated. Also the individual dust spots did not line up properly, causing half rings of dark and bright areas. Seeing was quite good, which was somewhat canceled by the bright Moon. Individual star size on the subs varied from 1.25 to 1.45 pixels. Final image resolution measured 2.1 arc sec FWHM.

Telescope:  AP 110GTX with F5 TCC
Mount:      AP 1600 AE encoder mount
Camera:    ZWO 6200 MM Pro
Software:  MaximDL 6.29 Pro, Photoshop, Croman NoiseX

Exposure:  14 x 300 sec

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Galaxies under the Full Moon, Roland Christen