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Whale Herring Galaxy (NGC4631)

Posted on May 10, 2020April 21, 2021

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NGC 4631 (also known as the Whale Galaxy or Caldwell 32) is a barred spiral galaxy located at 30 millions light year away in the constellation Canes Venatici.

More than 17 hours of integration on a new try to show all possible details with my equipment.

It’s the last target before the COVID situation and before to stop all remote activities on the remote observatory, because just in case…

Technical card
Imaging telescopes or lenses:Teleskop Service TS Photoline 107mm f/6.5 Super-Apo , Altair Astro RC250-TT 10″ RC Truss Tube

Imaging cameras:ZWO ASI183MM-Cool , ZWO ASI1600MM-Cool

Mounts:Skywatcher EQ6R Pro , Mesu 200 Mk2

Guiding telescopes or lenses:Celestron OAG Deluxe , Teleskop Service TSOAG9 Off-Axis Guider

Guiding cameras:ZWO ASI290 Mini , ZWO ASI174 Mini

Focal reducers:Riccardi Reducer/Flattener 0.75x , Telescope-Service TS 2″ Flattener

Software:Pleiades Astrophoto PixInsight , Seqence Generator Pro

Filters:Astrodon R Gen.2 E-series 36mm , Astrodon G Gen.2 E-series 36mm , Astrodon B Gen.2 E-series 36mm , Astrodon L Gen.2 E-series 36mm

Accessories:MoonLite NiteCrawler WR30 , ZWO EFW , MoonLite CSL 2.5″ Focuser with High Res Stepper Motor

Dates:Feb. 23, 2020 , Feb. 24, 2020 , Feb. 25, 2020 , Feb. 26, 2020

Frames:
Astrodon B Gen.2 E-series 36mm: 85×120″ (gain: 183.00) -15C bin 1×1
Astrodon G Gen.2 E-series 36mm: 85×120″ (gain: 183.00) -15C bin 1×1
Astrodon L Gen.2 E-series 36mm: 186×180″ (gain: 75.00) -20C bin 1×1
Astrodon R Gen.2 E-series 36mm: 85×120″ (gain: 183.00) -15C bin 1×1

Integration: 17.8 hours

Avg. Moon age: 8.61 days

Avg. Moon phase: 2.77%

Astrometry.net job: 3501139

RA center: 12h 42′ 7″

DEC center: +32° 33′ 16″

Pixel scale: 1.007 arcsec/pixel

Orientation: -179.913 degrees

Field radius: 0.336 degrees

Resolution: 1728×1667

Locations: AAS Montsec, Àger, Lleida, Spain

Data source: Own remote observatory

Remote source: Non-commercial independent facility

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