Wallpaper author:
Yves Marchand
26 Dec 2022
NGC 2997
NGC 2997 is a face-on unbarred spiral galaxy about 40 million light-years away.
I combined images of 600 seconds in luminance, red, green and blue colors representing 4 hours of exposures to produce this photo.
This is my first photo produced using only PixInsight software.
Dataset from which the image was processed
NGC 2997
6 credit
- Type of target............................................................................................................................Galaxy
- Camera............................................................................................................................FLI ProLine PL9000
- Target coordinates............................................................................................................................RA 146.4115 Dec -31.1909
- Hemisphere............................................................................................................................Southern
- Telescope location............................................................................................................................Chile
- Transient event............................................................................................................................No
- Observed on............................................................................................................................15 Mar 2021 - 24 Nov 2022
Filter | Avg Exp (s) | Total Exposure | Subframes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Green | 554 | 2h | 13 |
| Blue | 554 | 2h | 13 |
| Luminance | 646 | 2h20m | 13 |
| Red | 650 | 2h10m | 12 |