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Old 11-06-2016, 06:14 PM
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Lee "Wormsy" Borsboom

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NGC 4731 and friends

Not a very commonly imaged target--I'm not sure that it's been posted here before. Lots of little fuzzies in the background, which is always nice.

This one's fairly dim and I had planned to put a heap more integration time into it but I've had terrible wind and some hardware issues and now that I have a new camera, I'll probably move onto other targets when we next have clear skies (apparently not for the next week or so!).

This is 8.3hrs of data. The colour data is total junk. Blue in particular was bad, so I only have 3x240s blue frames in this, and even those frames were bad.

Overall the FWHM of the luminance wasn't terrible, with the resulting stack (prior to decon) coming in at 2.197" but I've had better recently.

Full res is available on Astrobin.
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