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Sunday, October 3, 2010

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NGC 1365, the "Great Barred Spiral Galaxy" locates in constellation Fornax about 61 million light years away. This is an enormous galaxy, 200.000 light years across, one of the larges galaxies known by astronomers.

















Technical details:





16" RCOS ja Apogee U9000 camera. 


LRGB combo. An Australian remote telescope


10x600s for the Luminance and 6x600s / RGB-channel . Dark, Bias 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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