Antilhue - Chile
Antilhue - Chile
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| Designation | NGC 7582 (right), NGC 7590 (left) and NGC 7599 (lower left) |
| Constellation | Grus (Gru) |
| Description | In an area about 15 arcmin wide, this striking field contains three fairly bright and differently oriented spiral galaxies. They form part of a group which includes NGC 7552 - just outside the field of view - and about a dozen fainter galaxies. Situated at declination -42° in the southern constellation of Grus (The Crane) the trio lies about 60 million lightyears beyond the foreground stars. |
| Exposure | LRGB 90:30:40:60 min @ -15°C - RGB binned 2x2 |
| Camera | SBIG ST-10XE selfguided + CFW-8 with Astronomik Filterset |
| Optics | RCOS 14.5" Ritchey-Chrétien with AP 0.67X reducer working at f/6.56 |
| Mount | Astro-Physics AP1200GTO |
| Software | MaxIm DL/CCD, Sigma Pre Beta 11, Adobe Photoshop 6.0 |
| Location - Date - Time | Vicuña (Chile) - 25Sep03 @ 05:00 UTC |
| Conditions | Transparency 7, Seeing 6, Temperature +10°C |
