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Galaxy NGC 2683
Image Description and Details :
NGC 2683 is a field spiral galaxy in the northern constellation of Lynx. It was nicknamed the "UFO Galaxy" by the Astronaut Memorial Planetarium and Observatory.It was discovered by the astronomer William Herschel on February 5, 1788.
Captured in my private observatory near Kyiv, Ukraine, during Nov-Dec 2020 by 350 mm Newton, SBIG-8300 STT, worked up by PixInsight. Total exposure time is about 30 hours.
Copyright: Edward Popovitch, Ukraine
NGC2683
Instrument: UNC 254mm f / 4 Astrograph Telescope
Imager: QSI 540WSG CCD Camera at -25 °, Atik GPE Guidance
Exposure: 20 exposures of 300 sec at -25 ° in Luminance
Preprocessing: 8 Dark / 8 Flat / 8 Offset
Processing: Prism 10, Photoshop CS3
Notes First test of the new telescope
Description GNC 2683 is a spiral galaxy of type Sb located in the constellation of the Lynx, at a distance of 16 million light years. It has an apparent angular dimension of 9.3 'by 2.2' of angle. Its magnitude is 10.6.