Observation by Steve Knight: Twin Quasar QSO 0957-651

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Steve Knight

Observer

Steve Knight

Observed

2024 Feb 02 - 00:40

Uploaded

2024 Jul 13 - 00:19

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Constellation

Ursa Major

Field centre

RA: 10^h01^m
Dec: +55°52'
Position angle: -98°19'

Field size

0°35' × 0°35'

Equipment

Seestar S50

Exposure

93 minutes of 10 sec exposures

Location

Banbury

Target name

QSO 0957-651

Title

Twin Quasar QSO 0957-651

About this image

Another go processing images acquired in February. This time using Pixinsight with more data. The two gravitationally lensed images of a single 8.7 billion ly quasar are magnitude 17 and 6 arc sec apart. The foreground galaxy on the right is NGC-3079.

Files associated with this observation

masterLight_BIN_1_1080x1920_EXPOSURE_10_00s_FILTER_IRCUT_RGB_integration_ABE cropped faststoned merged annotated.png (2.4 MB)

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Graham Winstanley, Dr Paul Leyland, Callum Potter

Comments

Dr Paul Leyland, 2024 Jul 13 - 08:45 UTC

Very nice!

Steve Knight

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