5/3/2008

 

A very strange pair of colliding galaxies, with two long curved tails formed by the graviational shock wave of the galaxies passing through each other.

This one wants a lot more exposure to show the tails fully, but its a start.

The cores are a nice visual target but  the tails are very faint.

 

 

 

TDS

 

Optics - C11 at f/6.3
Mount - Losmandy G11
Camera - modified Canon 20D

 

7x600s + 20x300s

 

DSLRfocus, GuideMaster, ImagesPlus, Photoshop, NeatimagePro

Image Processing Software:

 

This image required a special effort to remove an artifact called the "dark river" that plagues the Canon 20D and 20Da models. In short, a series of very low light "dark" frames were collected and removed from the imges during calibration with the standard dark, flat and bias frames.