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Tuesday, September 7, 2010

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NGC 613, barred spiral galaxy in southern constellation Sculptor. 


Distance is about 65 million light years. Image is a broadband LRGB-composition.


This target has a smallish angular diameter, about 5,5' x 4,2'. I might try this one again with a better seeing, at this time seeing was about 3,5" FWHM.










The telescope:















Close up








Technical details:





16" RCOS ja Apogee U9000 camera. 


LRGB combo.


9x600s for the Luminance and 1x600s / RGB-channel . Dark and Flat calibrated.


Raw data is shared by Petri Kehusmaa and J-P Metsavainio





Processing workflow:


Image acquisition, MaxiDL v4.xxx


Stacked and calibrated in CCDStack.


Deconvolution with a CCDSharp, 30 iterations.


Levels, curves and color combine in PS CS3.

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