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Galaxies
Galaxies
This folder displays the galaxies that I have imaged thus far. There's nothing spectacular here yet, however I am refining my technique moving to autoguiding and longer exposure durations.
NGC 5218 (Centaurus A)
NGC 292 (Small Magellanic Cloud)
M 104 (Sombrero Galaxy)
NGC 253 (Sculptor Galaxy)
.jpg "NGC 5218 (Centaurus A) Date: 02/07/2004 22:00 LT; Scope: Sky-Watcher ST80, f/4.0; Camera: Canon EOS 300D; Exposure: 10 x 30 sec, ISO 800; Processing: RAW images converted to 16-bit TIF in ImagesPlus. Dark subtraction. Images aligned using using Centroid and Translate + Rotate function and combined using Adaptive Addition in ImagePlus. Post-processing in ImagesPlus and Photoshop.")
.jpg "NGC 292 (Small Magellanic Cloud) Date: 02/07/2004 22:30 LT; Scope: Sky-Watcher ST80, f/4.0; Camera: Canon EOS 300D; Exposure: 5 x 30 sec, ISO 800; Processing: RAW images converted to 16-bit TIF in ImagesPlus. Dark subtraction. Images aligned using using Centroid and Translate + Rotate function and combined using Adaptive Addition in ImagePlus. Post-processing in ImagesPlus and Photoshop.")
.jpg "M 104 (Sombrero Galaxy) Date: 11/07/2004 21:42 LT; Scope: Sky-Watcher ST80, f/4.0; Camera: Canon EOS 300D; Exposure: 15 x 30 sec, ISO 800; Processing: RAW images converted to 16-bit TIF in ImagesPlus. Dark subtraction. Images aligned using using Centroid and Translate + Rotate function and combined using Adaptive Addition in ImagePlus. Post-processing in ImagesPlus and Photoshop.")
.jpg "NGC 253 (Sculptor Galaxy) Date: 10/10/2004 01:30 LT; Scope: Meade LX90, f/6.3; Camera: Canon EOS 300D; Exposure: 44 x 30 sec, ISO 800; Processing: RAW images converted to 16-bit TIF in ImagesPlus. Dark subtraction. Images aligned using using Centroid and Translate + Rotate function and combined using Adaptive Addition in ImagePlus. Post-processing in ImagesPlus, Photoshop, and NoiseWare CE.")