NGC4038 & 4039 (Antennae galaxies) in Corvus imaged on 24th May using an ASI 533MM Pro camera attached to an Altair 60EDF doublet refractor fitted with a 0.8x FR. Around 1.5 hours of LRGB/Ha data were captured in NINA and integrated in Pixinsight with final editing carried out in Adobe Photoshop 2024. These two galaxies are colliding and interacting with each other resulting in rapid star burst formation which are clearly visible as pink/red points of light. The faint curved "antennae" can just be seen in the highlighted and cropped image which are clouds of interstellar dust being flung away from the two merging galaxies.
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NGC4038 & 4039 (Antennae galaxies)
Chris Bowden
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