Celestial hemisphere:  Northern  ·  Constellation: Canes Venatici (CVn)  ·  Contains:  NGC 4627  ·  NGC 4631  ·  NGC 4656  ·  NGC 4657  ·  Whale Galaxy
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Whale and Hockey Stick Galaxies, Elmiko
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Whale and Hockey Stick Galaxies

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Whale and Hockey Stick Galaxies

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The Whale and Hockey Stick Galaxies NGC 4631 and NGC 4656 are a pair of interesting galaxies in Canes Venatici. The Whale is 24 MLY away and Hockey Stick is 17MLY away. Seeing 7/10.

I have to fix my spacing between the Baader MPCIII Coma corrector and sensor. It's at 55mm per specs. But still getting elongated stars in the corners.

Mike

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    Whale and Hockey Stick Galaxies, Elmiko
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B

Description: I thought the background was a bit noisy in the original version. So I reworked the image from just before the initial non-linear stretch. I was more conservative with the stretching. Although I think I did improve the Hockey Stick NGC 4656.
Mike

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Whale and Hockey Stick Galaxies, Elmiko