NGC 4725 The One Armed Galaxy

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This is my final galaxy image for this season 😪, astro darkness almost gone from my location. It is unfortunately heavily cropped as attempts to make the rig less prone to sag introduced some camera miss-alignment which I decided not to correct and use the time to image instead.

Captured with the dual Esprit 150/ASI 178 rig, data binned 2x2 so imaging at 0.94 arcsec/pixel, total integration 5.4 hrs

L 58 x 3 min

R 15 x 3 min

G 16 x 3 min

B 19 x 3 min

Calibrated and stacked in APP, processed in APP,AP and GIMP.

Apparently this galaxy is considered to only have a single spiral arm, but to my eye there is a hint of an second shorter inner arm at the base of the galaxy, but it is more likely to be my dodgy processing.

Thanks for looking