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The Twins

The Twins

The quot;Siamese Twinsquot; in Virgo - NGC4567 and 4568. This is a full resolution crop of a corner of an image that also contained Messier 58, 38 arc minutes away. The small pixels of the Kodak 8300 sensor allows for amazing resolution with a fairly small scope. The edge-on galaxy is 12th mag NGC4564.br/Scope: Astro-Physics AP130EDT at f8.35, 1086mmbr/ Camera: SBIG ST-F8300M with OAG and ST-i guide camera, Baader clear filterbr/ Mount: Astro-Physics 900QMDbr/ Exposures: 15 x 10 minutes binned 1x1br/ Images acquired using MaximDL 5br/ Calibration in MaximDL 5; PixInsight Lite and Photoshop CC, high-pass filtered unsharp masking applied to enhance galaxy cores.br/ Location and Date: near Cayley, Alberta; May 5 2013
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