| NGC 1365 Large Barred Spiral Galaxy Constellation: Fornax (The Furnace), RA 03h 33.6m DEC -36d 08m Distance: 35 million light years, Visual Magnitude: 9.5, Diameter: 10 x 6 arc mins Perth: Transits at the end of twilight at 9:03pm 3rd January, Elevation 85 degrees, due South |
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| - Imaged on 20100114 - 10" F/4.7 Newtonian Reflector - 744 video frames with Hydrogen Alpha (Ha) filter at x128 integration - Bahtinov focusing mask - rough polar alignment, no moon, ok seeing, elevation about 70 degrees - stacked in Registax 5.0 - Gamma adjusted in Registax 5.0 - processed in Photoshop 7.0 - sharpened using Lucy Richardson deconvolution (curve width 1, 1 iteration) in AstraImage 3.0SI |