Observation by Karen Smith: NGC 4361 for Deep Sky April Object of In...

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Karen Smith

Observer

Karen Smith

Observed

2026 Apr 08 - 22:33

Uploaded

2026 Apr 20 - 21:47

Objects

NGC4361

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Constellation

Corvus

Field centre

RA: 12^h24^m
Dec: -18°47'
Position angle: -101°57'

Field size

0°15' × 0°09'

Equipment

Meade 8" LX90 SCT telescope
ZWO ASI2600MC Pro
Optolong L-Pro filter
ZWO AM5N mount
ZWO ASIAir Plus

Exposure

80 x 30 second exposures stacked

Location

Midlands, United Kingdom

Target name

NGC 4361

Title

NGC 4361 for Deep Sky April Object of Interest

About this image

Residing in Corvus, NGC 4361 is a very low target from my back garden in the Midlands, and only just cleared our garden shed! The light pollution was also terrible at this altitude and so I was unable to find a single star to guide from. I therefore took 30 second unguided exposures to produce this image. I had over 140 exposures in total, but despite a lot of tweaking within PixInsight, I was only able to get 80 of the images to stack. The image has been cropped. Unfortunately, I wasn't able to capture much detail, and the image is very blurry, but it was fun to capture :)

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NGC-4361-web-crop.jpg (1.5 MB)

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