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12 - NGC 4725

12 - NGC 4725

The image is an 11 hour LRGB exposure done using an 11” EDGE SCT and a QSI583wsg CCD camera on a CGE PRO mount. I took the image from Calgary, Alberta. Camera control and preprocessing was done through ImagesPlus. Processing was done through PixInsight with final touch-up, as required, through Photoshop. Guiding was through PHD2 and a Lodestar camera. What I find interesting about this image is that while still classified as a Spiral Galaxy, NGC 4725 (on the left in the image) has only one arm while the more distant galaxy on the right, NGC 4712, is a more traditional multi-armed spiral galaxy similar to our own Milky Way Galaxy.
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