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FROM THE OBSERVATORY · 02-Apr-2020

Spiral Galaxy IC5325

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Spiral Galaxy IC5325
IC 5325 is a rarely photographed spiral galaxy in the Phoenix constellation
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Notes from the session

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.