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PixInsight => Gallery => Topic started by: RickS on 2018 July 29 03:17:56
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NGC 6744 is a Milky Way-like spiral galaxy approximately 30 million light-years away in the Southern constellation of Pavo. The satellite galaxy at approximately 11 o'clock is NGC 6744A.
Captured at Heaven's Mirror observatory (Martin Pugh) at Yass, NSW.
Scope: Planewave CDK17 @ f/6.8 = 2939mm FL
Mount: Paramount ME
Camera: SBIG STXL-11002/AOX
Filters: Astrodon LRGB gen II, 3nm NB
Image scale: 0.63 arcsec/pixel
Exposures: 6x1200s R, 15x1200s G, 15x1200s B, 21x1200s L, 12x1800s x2 Ha (26 hours)
Processing: PixInsight 1.8.5
(http://astrob.in/358546/rawthumb/gallery/get.jpg) (http://astrob.in/358546/)