M98 - NGC4192 - Spiral Galaxy in Coma Berenices - 21/4/2019 (Processed Cropped Mono stack)

Imaged at Perth Observatory using their remotely accessible equipment.

Test images at 30, 60, 90 secs all free of Blooming. Stacked for interest.

Near Full Moon in sky!

DeepSkyStacker 4.2.5 Stacked 3 Images @ 30, 60 & 90 Sec in Luminance only. Master DARK, BIAS and FLAT applied by SkyNet platform, Post-processed with Adobe Photoshop CC 2020 with AstroFlat Pro for flattening gradients and Noise Ninja for noise reducion of short stack.

Telescope - Celestron 14" f/11 with Optec ~0.5x Focal Reducer to f/5.62 F=2000mm, SBIG Filter Wheel with Open, B, V, R, IR, SPEC100, Ha and OIII filters, SBIG STT-3200M CCD camera 2184x1472 6.8µ pixels with field 26' x 17' , Optec TCF-S Temperature Compensating Focuser with FocusMAX autofocus software, CCD at -25C. Maxim DL for Image acquisition. Mount - Paramount ME. Boltwood Cloud Sensor II. TheSky planetarium software.

GalaxyMessierM98 Spiral Galaxy in Coma BerenicesNGCNGC4192 M98 Spiral Galaxy in Coma Berenices

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