Astrophotography · Galaxies
Cigar Galaxy
Captured and Processed by MD Shahadat Hossain Shahal
The object · NGC 3034
A detailed essay on Cigar Galaxy is coming soon.
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- Photographer
- MD Shahadat Hossain Shahal
- Observing location
- Bandarban , Lama (21.739769,92.168984)
- Exposure
- 120 min.
- Telescope
- Unistellar eQuinox 1 (Ashvin 1), 114 / 450 mm
- Camera
- Sony IMX224, 1.27 Mpx
- Field of view
- 37′ × 28′ in arcmin (1.7 arcsec)
- Image processing
- MD Shahadat Hossain Shahal
- Processing method
- 1. Stack all calibrated frames in DeepSkyStacker (DSS). 2. Attempt plate solving inside Siril. 3. Blind Plate Solving (If Siril fails to find an astrometric solution) 4. Perform Background Extraction in Siril to remove gradients and light pollution. 5.Apply Spectrophotometric Color Calibration (SPCC) for accurate colors. 6.Remove stars from the image (using star removal tool). 7.Stretch the starless image to bring out faint details. 8.Apply noise reduction 9.Add the stars back into the processed image. 10. Apply mild sharpening to make stars cleaner and more defined. 11.Minor adjustments if needed
Astrophotographic information
- Object type
- Starburst galaxy
- Constellation
- Ursa Major
- Distance
- 12 Mly
- Angular size
- 11.2 × 4.3 arcmin
- Physical size
- 37 Kly
- Apparent magnitude
- 8.41
Astrophysical information