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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.

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
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Color Space:sRGB
EXIF Offset:174
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Software:Adobe Photoshop Lightroom Classic 11.3.1 (Windows)
X Resolution:240 dots per ResolutionUnit
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