AMATEUR ASTRONOMY  home
Ngc 6340 galaxy group
(click and scroll on the image for 4K resolution)




Object:            Ngc 6340,  galaxy group in Draco.
Telescope:    
 Luminance:   Astrograph 400 f/4 Newton.  3" 1.15x coma corrector up to 1850mm fl. Paramount ME.  ASI 6200 MM cmos.  Chroma L filter.
                       Color:            Astrograph  250 f/4 Newton.  Paramount ME.  ATIK 16200 ccd.  Chroma RGB filters
Exposures:        L : 240 x 10'   ( 40:00 ) 
                          R:   54 x   5'   (   4:30 ) 
                          G:   54 x   5'   (   4:30 )   
                          B:   54 x   5'   (   4:30 ) 
                              Total:    53:30 hours

Resolution:       0.52"/pixel.   Luminance  FWHM after integration: 2.6"  (2.4" after deconvolution)
Date:                June - July  2022
Site:                 
Luminance:  Sagan Observatory      Las Rozas  (Spain)     - mag 4.5 suburban skies -
                        Color:           La Sagra Observatory  Puebla de Don Fadrique (Spain)    - mag 7 professional observatory skies -

Processing (PixInSight):
Bias, Dark & Flat calibration
Local Normalization
DBE
Photometric Color Calibration
Starnet2 for star masks
Deconvolution
Histogram stretching
HDRMultiscale Transformation
Color saturation adjustments
Morphological Transformation stars reduction