NGC 1300
Published in Astronomy Now Magazine December 2020
Published in Astronomy Now Magazine December 2020
NGC 1300 is a beautiful example of a barred spiral galaxy. It is 70 million light years from Earth in the constellation Eridanus, and it is over 100,000 light years across - approximately the same size as our Milky Way galaxy.
TARGET
Nomenclature: NGC 1300
Right Ascension: 03:19:41.1
Declination: -19:24:41
Discovery: John Herschel in 1835
Size: 6.2 x 4.1 arc min
EQUIPMENT USED
APM TMB LZOS 152 refractor
10Micron GM2000 HPS mount
QSI6120 CCD camera
Astrodon filters
IMAGE CAPTURE
Luminance: 102x300 bin 1x1
Red: 12x300 bin 1x1
Green: 11x300 bin 1x1
Blue: 10x300 bin 1x1
Total integration: 11.2 hours
Pixel scale: 0.534 arcsec/pixel
Field radius: 0.340 degrees
Capture dates: 16-19 October 2020
Capture location: Fregenal de la Sierra, Spain
Luminance: 102x300 bin 1x1
Red: 12x300 bin 1x1
Green: 11x300 bin 1x1
Blue: 10x300 bin 1x1
Total integration: 11.2 hours
Pixel scale: 0.534 arcsec/pixel
Field radius: 0.340 degrees
Capture dates: 16-19 October 2020
Capture location: Fregenal de la Sierra, Spain
IMAGE PROCESSING
Pre-processing: CCDStack2
Post-processing: Photoshop CS2
Pre-processing: CCDStack2
Post-processing: Photoshop CS2