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Tom Womack ([personal profile] fivemack) wrote2015-05-30 07:22 pm
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Messier 104

This is another spiral galaxy, just short of edge-on to us, with a very prettily-placed band of dust in the plane of the galaxy - you can see that the nucleus is on the top side.

Tends to be called the Sombrero galaxy. Combination (using software I've just written) of five 90-second exposures; the purple colour cast is an artefact of pulling the levels up to show the faintest stars.

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(Anonymous) 2015-05-31 06:32 am (UTC)(link)
And there I was, thinking you couldn't get any messier
It's your brother, Ben

[identity profile] history-monk.livejournal.com 2015-05-31 10:03 am (UTC)(link)
That is pretty good. Nobody makes much fuss about the digital sensor revolution, but good consumer ones now compare very well with the ones astronomers were using a decade ago.

[identity profile] rwl.livejournal.com 2015-06-02 03:10 am (UTC)(link)
There's a shareware called "Registax" that also does this. I tried it once and found it exceeding difficult to use (the documentation is not very good). Your program seems to do just as good a job.
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