We've added another night of luminance (under good seeing) and another night of RGB to our 2016 version of NGC 1532, a wonderful pair of colliding galaxies in Eridanus.
We now have 16 hours of Lum and 3h30 per channel of RGB, all with the same scope and camera chip.
(For those who saw the facebook version, this has more RGB, and is a complete reprocess, paying more attention to sharpening artifacts in the very brightest parts of the galaxy).
The streaks of star formation, especially in the tidal tails, are remarkable.
We have previously mentioned that 1532 has a remarkable resemblance to Jabba the Hutt, with the small colliding galaxy representing the head, the main galaxy the body, and the two strong tidal tails representing the balletic, swimming hind legs. Beware the True Power of the Dark Side!
20 inch PlaneWave. 2016 data taken using an Aspen CG16M, and 2020 data an FLI PL16803. They use the same Kodak chip.
[As usual, all processing software and all dome, scope, mount, and focus control hardware, firmware, and software written/built by us in-house.]
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Best,
MnT