Thar she blows

[powerlord]

NGC4631 - The Whale Galaxy.

Shot with my 150 TS-Photonic, with secondary mirror with chunk out of it, and damaged primary (

came oot ok I reckon.

274 mins of 2 min subs with asi533, with uv/ir filter.

Processed in APP, Siril and Affinity Photo.

stu

Edited February 1, 2022 by powerlord

[powerlord]

Anyone have a good way of finding out what this little galaxy is called ? I can't find it on sky safari. astronomy.net plate solve doesn't name it, neither does Kstars - but Kstars does show it in the sky picures, so it does exist.

[KevinPSJ]

stellarium-web.org thinks it's PGC2003403 - see screenshot

 

 

[powerlord]

ta - didn't know there was a web version of stellarium.

[Clarkey]

Glad to see your scope is still serviceable after your mishap. Image has come out well.

 

[powerlord]

thanks, yeh I think I still had the back focus a bit off to the CC so one to try next time, but certainly as far as my non star peeping eyes go, it seems no different than before!