NGC 4244, the Silver Needle Galaxy in Canes Venatici
Another "needle" edge-on galaxy, member of a group of galaxies associated with Messier 94 in the Virgo supercluster; about 14 million light-years from Earth.
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Filename: 20220514-NGC4244_LRGB2C.jpg
Album name: 27telp / Galaxies
Location and Date: OCA site near Anza, California - April 7, 2022
Equipment: William Optics FLT-132 refractor, Astro-Physics 1200GTO mount, ZWO ASI1600mm CMOS camera, Mini-Borg 50 guide scope, Starlight Express Ultrastar guide camera
Settings: 10 exposures @300 seconds each in Luminance, Red, Green, Blue, and Hydrogen-alpha, bin 1x1
Notes: Software: Capture, Sequence Generator Pro; guiding, PHD2; Calibration and stacking, CCDStack2; Final processing - PixInsight 1.8.9 and Photoshop CC
Filesize: 417 KiB
Date added: May 24, 2022
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