NGC 4631, The Whale Galaxy
A barred spiral galaxy in the constellation Canes Venatici. Contains a central starburst - a region of intense star formation. The "calf" - the nearby dwarf galaxy - is NGC 4527.
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Filename: NGC4631_20220424_LRGB3.jpg
Album name: 27telp / Galaxies
Location and Date: OCA Observation Site near Anza, California, 4/24/2022
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
Filesize: 1520 KiB
Date added: May 14, 2022
Dimensions: 2048 x 1531 pixels
Displayed: 7 times
Color Space: sRGB
EXIF Offset: 174
EXIF Version: version 2.31
Resolution Unit: Inch
Software: Adobe Photoshop Lightroom Classic 11.3.1 (Windows)
X Resolution: 240 dots per ResolutionUnit
Y Resolution: 240 dots per ResolutionUnit
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