Sunday, August 14, 2022

A Cosmic Needle

 The Needle Galaxy (NGC 4565) is an edge on (most likely, barred) spiral galaxy. At magnitude 10, it is not a difficult object to image. The picture below is aggressively cropped from the original widefield image captured by the RASA 8 and DS10C camera. The astrometric image of the full field shows a plethora of galaxies and other objects.




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The Bubble Nebula--16h with the Seestar S50

This is a cropped image of a 16 hour integration (EQ mode, 20s exposures). It was processed in Siril, Graxpert, Cosmic Clarity, and Affinty....