Thursday, March 20, 2025

Copeland's Eyes part of the Markarion Chain of galaxies

22 x 5 minute exposures of the Copeland's Eyes part of the Markarion Chain of galaxies, NGC 4438 captured with AstroDMx Capture through a William Optics 81 mm ED APO refractor with an Altair Hypercam 533C 14 bit OSC CMOS camera with an Altair quadband filter..

The data were debayered, calibrated, stacked and SpectroPhotometric Color Corrected and stars removed in PixInsight; post processed in the Gimp 2.10, Background extraction, initial denoising and stretching in GraXpert and SetiAstro's Cosmic Clarity for sharpening and final denoising.

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Copeland's Eyes


Annotated image

Steve Wainwright and Nicola Mackin

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