NGC 4216 and Friends

2024April 2024

Apr 7

Written By Charles Lillo

Image Title: NGC 4216 and Friends

Copyright: Davide Nardulli

Date image was taken: April 02, 2024

Location: My garden in Casamassima (Ba) Italy

Image Description and Details: NGC4216 (bottom left) is a metal-rich intermediate spiral galaxy located not far from the center of the Virgo Cluster, about 40 million light-years from Earth. NGC4216 is at the center of the triplet of galaxies completed by the galaxies NGC4206 and NGC4222, in this large cluster there are many other galaxies among which the brightest are: the spiral NGC4189 at the top center, the elliptical NGC4168 to the right and in the center of field NGC4193. I filmed on the nights of April 1st and 2nd, 5 hours with the Optolong L-Pro filter for the luminance signal and another 5 hours with the Optolong RGB filters for the color signal.

Equipment Details: Technical data and tools
light : L : 100x180s bin1 , RGB : 100x180s. bin2
data acquisition: Asi Air Plus
telescope: Skywatcher Newton 250/1000 F4 + coma corrector 1.0x TSGPU
main chamber: Asi 2600 MM pro
guide: Oag-L + Asi 290 MM mini
filter wheel: Efw 7x2
focuser: Eaf 5v
mount: Skywatcher EQ6R-pro
processing: Dss, PixInsight and Photoshop
bortle 6, sqm 19.30

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