NGC4157

Rancho Del Sol Observatory · Camino, California

NGC4157 by Ken Crawford

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Image Equipment Details

  • RCOS 20" carbon truss - 100mm FFC
  • Paramount ME
  • Apogee Alta u9000
  • SBIG ST402 Guider
  • Astrodon MegaMoag
  • Astrodon 50mm Sq Filters

Exposure Details

  • Clear/ Lum = 460 minutes
  • Red = 100 minutes
  • Green = 100 minutes
  • Blue = 100 minutes
  • Ha = 0 minutes
  • OIII = 0 minutes
  • SII = 0 minutes

Software Used

  • MaxDL 5
  • CCDAutopilot 5
  • CCDStack2
  • Photoshop CS5

About this image


NGC4157 in Ursa Major is a barred spiral tilted just enough to see some of the core detail. It is about 6.7 x 1.2 arc/minutes in size and is framed by an 8th magnitude
F class star.

NGC4157 detail

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