NGC3642

This is a very faint galaxy in Ursa Major - right inside the bowl, in fact. The core is faint but not terribly so, and the arms are very faint - single 20 minute exposures barely bring them out. This is the result of three hours of luminance exposure, nine at 20 minutes each. A mild deconvolution in CCDSoft to bring out details - the seeing was a little soft tonight.

ST-10XME, C14, Paramount ME via the internet.

Ron Wodaski
http://www.newastro.com/remote

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Beautiful work Ron!
Lots of "small" galaxies around it too...


Thanks!


Ivan

That's fantastic, Ron. I like the seeing
the 'uncommonly photographed' galaxies.
This one has nice tight, concentric
sprials, almost hypnotic.

Are you gonna have time to add color?

K