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RA center: 19h08m47s.31
DEC center: -63°43′09″.6
Pixel scale: 1.144 arcsec/pixel
Orientation: -179.196 degrees
Field radius: 0.866 degrees
WCS transformation: thin plate spline
More info:Open
Resolution: 4275x3383
File size: 7.1 MB
Data source: Traveller
Description:
The spiral galaxy NGC6744 lies some 30 million light-years away from our home galaxy, the Milky Way. This amazing structure can be found in the southern Pavo constellation appearing as a faint and diffuse object. The galaxy is nearly 175,000 light-years across, larger than our own galaxy.
The giant galaxy's yellowish core is dominated by the light from old, cool stars. Beyond the core, spiral arms filled with young blue star clusters and reddish star forming regions sweep past a smaller satellite galaxy at the lower left of NGC6744, reminiscent of the Milky Way's satellite galaxy the LMC (Large Magellanic Cloud).
This image was captured this past September 2021 from one of the darkest places on Earth, the Namibian desert. I was able to spend a week there, at Tivoli Farm, an astrophotographer's paradise. There I rented a fully equipped observatory to capture some beautiful southern objects that I cannot photograph from my backyard observatory located in Spain at 41º north.
With a relatively low integration time, from one of the best dark skies and with a fast telescope (ASA 12" f/3.6 astrograph), I was able to gather enough data to capture the faint galaxies that surround NGC6744. My surprise was that I also captured some Integrated Flux Nebula (IFN) that spans all over the image. Not far from the galactic plane, this faint IFN has been rarely spotted by other amateur images.
Image details:
L: 21x300"
R: 12x300" - G: 12x300" - B: 12x300"
Calibration: 24 darks, 24 bias, 24 flats
All images taken at -30ºC Bin1
Total exposure: 4h45'
Data acquisition: September 2021
Average darkness: 22.10 mag/arcsec2
Image resolution: 1.15”/pixel
FOV: 1.43ºx1.15º
Equipment:
ASA N12 f/3.6 Astrograph
ASA DDM85 mount
FLI 16200 CCD camera
Astrodon LRGB filters
Software: Maxim DL, The Sky, ASA Focus, APP, PIX, LR, PS, TPZ.
Aleix Roig - NAMIBIA (Tivoli Farm), October 2021
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Status | Advanced success |
Started | ... |
Astrometry.net job | 5069342 |
PixInsight job | 7II2FOIAMSPK7B0Y2XTW75Y1TBWIJEXL |
PixInsight queue size | n/a |
PixInsight stage | TASK_LOG |
RA (center) | 19h08m47s.31 |
RA (top/left) | 19h02m28s.67 |
RA (top/right) | 19h14m57s.66 |
RA (bottom/right) | 19h14m51s.92 |
RA (bottom/left) | 19h02m50s.92 |
Dec (center) | -63°43′09″.6 |
Dec (top/left) | -64°14′16″.3 |
Dec (top/right) | -64°15′25″.5 |
Dec (bottom/right) | -63°11′03″.6 |
Dec (bottom/left) | -63°09′55″.3 |
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