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Old 03-02-2014, 02:53 PM
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NGC2207/IC2163 galaxy interaction

I took this one over the last new moon period at Wiruna. Seeing was OK but not great (FWHM around 2.5"). The two galaxies are in close proximity. NGC 2207 is the larger galaxy and just behind it is the smaller galaxy IC 2163.

http://www.astrobin.com/76328/

Telescope: Plane Wave 12.5" CDK
Mount AP900
Camera: QSI540wsg
Exposure: 7.5 hours, distributed around 2.5 hours of luminance and the rest divided (more or less) equally between R,G and B.
Software: Acquisition in MaximDL, processing in PixInsight.
Cropped to about 70% of the original frame.
Geoff
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