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gerry aarts
11-11-2008, 12:06 AM
Hi All,

I captured this one at the South pacific Star Party in May this year.
I have only just got around to processing it and pleased with the result.
Surface brightness is only 13.8 magnitude.

I could not identify the NGC number initially because I failed to make note of it during capture, rather embaressing. I suspected it was in the NGC 4000 range and upon searching various sites identified it as NGC 4536.

A bit of an oddball warped shape in the star forming blue spiral arms.

Image capture details are noted below the image.

Gerry
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jase
11-11-2008, 10:14 AM
A nice find Gerry. I like the peculiar spiral arms on this target. Would be an interesting target for a longer focal length. Well done.:)

Ric
11-11-2008, 02:15 PM
Nice capture Gerry, I've noted this one for imaging.

The shape of the arms definitely make it an interesting target.

Octane
11-11-2008, 06:48 PM
Gerry,

Nice one. Earmarked that for when I have a larger telescope.

Regards,
Humayun