Spiral Galaxy NGC 5084
12-Jun-2021
Categorised as a supermassive disk galaxy, at a distance of 80 million light years and 200,000 light years across, NGC 5084 is one of the largest galaxies in the Virgo Supercluster. Seen edge on, the warped disk is a result of stealing material from nearby satellite galaxies.
Image:
- 103x 300s Luminance
- 45x 300s Red
- 43x 300s Green
- 47x 300s Blue
Total integration 19 hours, 50 minutes. Focal length: 2800mm
Hardware:
- Celestron 11" EdgeHD
- Skywatcher EQ8-Rh Pro mount
- QSI 683-ws8 Camera @ -15°C
- Astrodon LRGB Gen2 E-Series Tru-Balance filters
- Starlight Xpress Lodestar X2 Autoguider
- Innovations Foresight ONAG
- Starlight Instruments Feather Touch Focuser
Location:
- Exposed over 6 nights between 19th April to 11th May 2021
- 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, HDR multiscale transform, LRGB combination, noise reduction, photometric color calibration, histogram, curves, crop.