NGC 4567 and 4568 are unbarred spiral galaxies in Virgo. This image is a very aggressive crop from the larger field image shown in my earlier post on integration times. The image is pixellated as the RASA 8 scope has a very large field and these galaxies are tiny objects in the captured image. It's always fun to capture colliding galaxies from your own back yard :)
The trials, tribulations and small triumphs of a Charlotte, NC astronomer imaging under Bortle 8/9 skies.
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Leo Triplet (Seestar S 50)
5 hours on the Leo Triplet in EQ mode. I'm impressed with the amount of detail the scope captured in that time (zoom in to see it). Bort...

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I had a couple of emails asking how to defork an ETX telescope. The ETX 90 and ETX 125 were optically superb scopes, but the mounts left a...
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The ZEQ25 doing its stuff on a cold night--imaging the Orion Nebula with an 8 inch f/4 astrograph. Note the lovely Christmas rug :) As ...
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Like the Ring Nebula, the Dumbbell nebula is a planetary nebula marking the end of a star's life as it puffs off its outer layers into s...
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