[back] ESO 350-40 (Cartwheel Galaxy) in Sculptor [NED]

Distance ~110Mpc/380MLy

 

60"

 

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About this Image / Über dieses Bild

CCD: ST10 XME
Image Type, Orientation: L-RGB Composite, North is at 10:00h
Exposure time: L: 12x300 sec. 1x1 bin, R,G,B: 3x300 sec. 2x2 bin
Exposure date: September 13th, 2004
Location: Capella Observatory at Amani Lodge, Kupferberg near Windhoek, Namibia
Filter: FR03 + Astronomik
Typ II LRGB filters
Instrument: Ganymed 60cm-Hypergraph in secondary focus, f=4800 mm
Seeing (FWHM): 2.6"
Photographer: Josef Pöpsel
   
Remarks:

The most well known image of the Cartwheel Galaxy is the picture done with the HST (see here).

Image processed with CCDSharp and DDP.

 

 

Bemerkungen:

Das bekannteste Bild der Cartwheel-Galaxie (Wagenrad-Galaxie) ist wohl die HST-Aufnahme (siehe hier).

Das Bild wurde mit Hilfe von CCDSharp und DDP bearbeitet.

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