NGC3267, NGC3268, NGC3269 and NGC3271 Image taken at Clayton Bay, South Australia Equipment - GSO RC12 STXL11002 Guiding - Integrated guide camera and AOX Focuser/Rotator - Moonlite Nitecrawler 30 Software - MaximDL, Focusmax, Pinpoint, CCDautopilot 5 LRGB 28.5 hours Darks, flats and biases applied Processed in CCD stack and Photoshop CS6 Object -Located in the constellation of Antlia at a distance of 132 million light years. There are many galaxies within this frame, some very distant and slightly red shifted. At the top of the image is NGC3267, 3268, 3269 and 3271. NGC3269 is the one I find most interesting with it being lenticular and distinct rings. |