• NGC 5364, a Grand Design Spiral Galaxy
    • NGC 5364
    Annotated image
  • NGC 5364 in the constellation Virgo exhibits an incomplete ring
  • structure in the inner galaxy.  NGC 5364 is 55 Mly from us
  • with a size, 110  700 ly, similar to our own Milky Way.
  • Hover over the picture for an annotated version
  • Date:  31 May 2022 and 3 June 2022
  • FOV:  cropped to 45' × 30'; the long axis of NGC 5364 is about 6.8'
  • Telescope:  Stellarvue SVX102T + SFFX-1 (714mm, f/7)
  • Guiding:  ZWO ASI120MM mini mono guide camera,
  • Stellarvue F050G 50mm guide scope
  • Computer:  ASIair pro Raspberry Pi
  • Mount:  iOptron CEM40
  • Camera:  ZWO ASI071MC Pro Cooled (-10°C) Color CMOS with gain 240
  • Filter:  Baader Light Pollution Moonglow filter with IR cut
  • Stacking:  Fifteen 240 second frames on 31 May and thirty-one
  • 240 second frames on 3 June using Deep Sky Stacker
  • Total Time:  3 hours 4 minutes
  • Processing:  Pixinsight – SPPC, DBE, SPCC, BlurXT, NoiseXT, DynCrop → Linear
  • MStr, GHS, HST, PMath MStr + GHS + HST → Stars, Sat,
  • StarXT, MStr, GHS, HST, PMath MStr + GHS + HST → Starless,
  • HDR464PhLm, Sat, PMath ~(~Stars*~Starless) → Blend, scale
  • Location:  Darling Hill Observatory in Vesper, NY