NGC 4449 the Irregular Galaxy

[Jedi2014]

After a while I like to present my latest image of NGC 4449. It is an irregular galaxy of the Large Magellanic Cloud type, also called LMC type, in the constellation of Canes Venatici. It has an angular extension of 5.5' × 3.6' and an apparent brightness of 9.4 mag.

At the end of February we had a lot of nice days, but the nights were filled with cirrus and dust. So why not take up a very weak irregular galaxy, the mentally deranged astrophotographer is thinking. In retrospect I felt like this after 4 nights. Then I took it as a challenge and could work out a decent picture at the end. What you see here are about 13 hours of HaLRGB (with CLS filter as luminance) and 20 hours of processing to get rid of the gradients and the dust in my raw material. At least: with a lot of good will you can see the tidal tail left above the galaxy.

Data and more information: http://www.spaceimages.de/en/astrophotos/galaxies/ngc-4449

or https://www.astrobin.com/392780/

If someone is at the CEDIC in Linz (Austria) 15th - 17th of march, you can meet me there. I'm looking forward to it.

Cheers
Jens

 

[Rush]

Wow, greatwork Jens.

Looks very similar to LMC.

CS

Rush

 

[michael.h.f.wilkinson]

Nice one. I remember spotting that odd box shape in CVn with my C8 years back and thinking it looked a lot like the LMC looked like in the binoculars I brought to South Africa years before