Observation by David Davies: The Antenna Galaxies, NGC 4038, 4039, Ar...

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David Davies

Observer

David Davies

Observed

2022 Apr 04 - 01:00

Uploaded

2022 May 13 - 16:58

Objects

NGC4038
NGC4039

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Constellation

Corvus

Field centre

RA: 12^h01^m
Dec: -18°52'
Position angle: -1°58'

Field size

0°35' × 0°26'

Equipment

200mm Ritchey-Chretien
ASI 294MC Pro camera
SW EQ8 mount

Exposure

45 x 3-min

Location

Cambridge, UK

Target name

The Antenna Galaxies

Title

The Antenna Galaxies, NGC 4038, 4039, Arp 244, Caldwell 60, 61

About this image

On the night of 3rd - 4th April, I was finishing a little project to image one of the lesser observed Messier objects when I wondered how best to take advantage of a fairly transparent sky and fair weather. A quick search in Sky Safari showed that the Antenna Galaxies were just rising above the tree line to my south, and I had a couple of hours to observe them before they disappeared again. I swapped cameras from my QSI to the ASI 294MC to see what I could observe.

This image is the result. I pushed the exposures to 3 minutes (from my usual 2 minutes) but kept the camera gain low at 50 to try to do justice to the star images and was thinking that I would not be able to see much of the antennae themselves at such a low altitude. But I have been pleasantly surprised at what I've managed to capture in terms of detail in the interacting galaxies and the very faint trails of the antennae themselves.

Files associated with this observation

NGC4038-9_LRGB-2.jpg (1.4 MB)

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