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Old 15-11-2015, 09:02 PM
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Galaxies in Fornax

A wide field image of lots of galaxies in the constellation of Fornax. Star of the show is NGC 1365 (centre) with Fornax A in the bottom right of the image. Lots of other small galaxies as well (haven't tried to count them all yet!).

Acquisition
R, G & B @ 300s
Ha @ 900s
Darks, flats, bias
Total of 12.8 hours of data processed.

Hardware
Canon EOS 200mm F2.8 prime lens (stopped down to about F4 with a step down ring on the front of the lens)
QSI 683 CCD
Piggy backed on my Skywatcher 900mm refractor
EQ8 mount
Guide camera = Lodestar x2

Software
Sequence Generator Pro for image capture
Pixinsight 1.8 processing

Link to Astrobin image here.

Comments and critique welcome.
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