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| Description: | This unusual galaxy has a bright ring of star
forming regions in clusters around the core. Moving outward, there is
a collection of older stars followed by another ring of young stars.
Continuing further out, there is a dust area and beyond that a galactic glow
that extends nearly to the total height of the image. The latter areas
depend on a carefully adjusted monitor to see. |
| Exposure Data: | 3/30/2004. LRGB: 49x3m, 10x3m, 10x3m,
10x3m. RGB binned 2x2. -20°C, 0.59 arc-sec./pixel. |
| Processing: | Acquired via Sequencer II and CCDSoft, reduced,
aligned and combined in Mira, L 30xRL, DDP
in AIP4WIN, LRGB
in Maxim, final combine, curves, levels and other processing in Photoshop. |
| Optical System: | 14.5” Ritchey-Chretien RCOS Truss @ F/6.4,
ST-10XME NABG/CFW-8A CCD camera, Paramount ME. AstroDon filters with IR-filtered
L. Unguided and dithered 4 arc-sec. |
| Comments: | Luminance frame measured 3.2 arc-sec. before deconvolution and 1.6 arc-sec. after. |