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Offline joelkuiper

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NGC 691 & Friends (a not often seen pair)
« on: 2017 November 10 04:57:31 »


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Using PhotoMetricColorCalibration. The framing is a bit off I think, but there seems to be some nice red shifted galaxies in the background, that might be worth exploring with a NIR filter.

Bonus, M110



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Offline RickS

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Re: NGC 691 & Friends (a not often seen pair)
« Reply #1 on: 2017 November 10 19:42:57 »
Nice images, Joel!

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Re: NGC 691 & Friends (a not often seen pair)
« Reply #2 on: 2017 November 11 01:03:47 »
Joel, that's impressive sharpness and small stars! Large aperture? What your imaging resolution?

Offline joelkuiper

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Re: NGC 691 & Friends (a not often seen pair)
« Reply #3 on: 2017 November 11 01:09:52 »
Joel, that's impressive sharpness and small stars! Large aperture? What your imaging resolution?

Thanks! It's the QHY23 on a 12" Newton with an ASA reducer, which gives a pixel scale of about 0.628 arcsec/pixel, the M110 image was drizzle upsampled by 2x, so that gives roughly half (0.314 arcsec/pixel). The Newton is slightly out of collimation though, so we'll have to fix that. The stars were reduced a bit using MorphologicalTransform with a star mask to hide some of the miscollimation (in general I don't really like doing that, but in this case it worked out)

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Re: NGC 691 & Friends (a not often seen pair)
« Reply #4 on: 2017 November 11 01:34:48 »
Nice.Thanks for the details.