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NGC4038-39

Image taken at Clayton Bay, South Australia

Equipment - 302mm GSO f4 Truss Newtonian, QSI WSG-8, Software Bisque PME

Guiding - SBIG STi

Software - MaximDL 6, Focusmax V4, SkyX, CCDautopilot 5

LRGB 12.4hours

Processed in CCDstack 2 and Photoshop CS6

Object - Located in the constellation of Corvus at a distance of 45 million light years.

Both galaxies are in the process of interacting and merging together and exhibit long tidal tails.