Spiral Galaxy IC5325
02-Apr-2020
IC 5325 is a rarely photographed spiral galaxy in the Phoenix constellation
Image:
- 40x 300s Red
- 40x 300s Green
- 40x 300s Blue
Total integration 10 hours. Focal length: 2800mm
Hardware:
- Celestron 11&qoute; EdgeHD
- Skywatcher EQ8 Pro mount
- QSI 683-ws8 Camera @ -15°C
- Astrodon RGB Gen2 E-Series Tru-Balance filters
- Starlight Xpress Lodestar X2 Autoguider
- Innovations Foresight ONAG
- Starlight Instruments Feather Touch Focuser
Location:
- Exposed over 3 nights between 19th and 24th September 2019.
- Orange zone in Brisbane, Australia. (Bortle 7)
Software:
- Planning & camera alignment with Aladin 10
- Captured with TheSkyX Professional
- Guiding with PHD2
- PixInsight: Calibrate, align, integrate, dynamic background extraction, RGB combination, noise reduction, photometric color calibration, histogram, local histogram equalization, curves, crop.