NGC4244 color

Here's another fairly active galaxy, this time and edge-on one. The blue regions are areas of hot, young stars. Some unusual dust detail can be seen around the core.

Nine 5-minute luminance images, and three sets of RGB at 3:5:6 minutes each set. Lucy-Richardson deconvolution in CCDSoft (settings: Sigma 1.0; 32 iterations; kernal 5).

Reduced to 80% to tighten up the appearance.

Ron Wodaski

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Both images are full of surprising details, Ron!
I especially like the tiny dust lane in this image, looking like a ring?

Johannes

hi Ron,

you know I always thought edge on galaxies were much the same in appearance and a bit uninteresting ... but you are proving me wrong. The dust lanes near the center and the star clouds farther out in the arms give this one a lot of character...very nicely done as usual


clear skies,


Larry Citro