Observation by Mike Greenhill-Hooper: The Little Sombrero galaxy

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Mike Greenhill-Hooper

Observer

Mike Greenhill-Hooper

Observed

2023 Oct 10 - 21:30

Uploaded

2023 Oct 16 - 15:02

Objects

NGC7814

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Constellation

Pegasus

Field centre

RA: 00^h03^m
Dec: +16°08'
Position angle: +57°44'

Field size

0°11' × 0°07'

Equipment

Telescope: 20" f/4 Obsession Dobsonian; Paracorr coma corrector
ASI294MMPro CMOS cooled monochrome camera with ZWO RGB filters

Exposure

4x150 2s frames stacked in SharpCap for each filter; camera gain 450, temp 0C

Location

Miradoux, S.W. France

Target name

Little Sombrero Galaxy

Title

The Little Sombrero galaxy

About this image

Very good seeing conditions, easy to get a good focus. Lovely edge-on galaxy. Images dark and flat calibrated and stacked with SharpCap Pro's live stacking function. Then used Affinity photo to align, stack and process separate RGB images to produce final colour image. So many tiny galaxies visible in this but especially the wider field, particularly in the Luminance image. However, due to field rotation the combined RGB image had a smaller field of view due to the necessary cropping.

Files associated with this observation

NGC7814 Best Redo.jpg (1.4 MB)

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