• Arp 244, NGC 4038 and NGC 4039 in Corvus
    • Antenna Galaxies
    Antenna Galaxies Annotated image
  • Arp 244, NGC 4038 and NGC 4039, are the Antenna Galaxies.
  • Hover over the picture for an annotated version
  • Date:  28 April 2022 and 19 May 2022
  • FOV:  Cropped to 68' × 45'; NCG 4038 is about 5.2' by 3.1'
  • Telescope:  Stellarvue SVX102T + SFFX-1 flattener (714mm, f/7)
  • Guiding:  ZWO ASI120MM mini mono guide camera,
  • Stellarvue F050G 50mm guide scope
  • Computer:  ASIair pro Raspberry Pi
  • Mount:  iOptron CEM40
  • Camera:  ZWO ASI071MC Pro Cooled (-10°C) Color CMOS
  • Filter:  Baader Light Pollution Moonglow filter with IR cut
  • Stacking:  Forty-six 240 second frames 180 gain and
  • eighteen 240 second frames 240 gain using Deep Sky Stacker
  • Total Time:  4 hours 16 minutes
  • Processing:  Pixinsight – SPPC, DBE, BlurXT, NoiseXT, DynCrop,
  • MStr, GHS, HST, PMath MStr + GHS + HST, HDR4,
  • StarXT, Bill Blanshan StarReduction, Sat, Scale
  • Location:  Darling Hill Observatory in Vesper, NY