Wallpaper author:
    Dan Crowson

    18 Apr 2023

    NGC 4945

    NGC 4945 (ESO 219-24, PGC 45279 and many others) is a seyfert 2 galaxy located approximately 11.3 million light-years away in Centaurus.

    Luminance – 6x300s and 10x600s – 130 minutes – binned 1x1

    RGB – 6x300s and 10x600s – 130 minutes each – binned 1x1

    520 minutes total exposure – 8 hours 40 minutes

    Imaged over thirteen nights in 2021 and 2022 at the El Sauce Observatory (Rio Hurtado, Chile) with a FLI PL 9000 on a PlaneWave CDK24 at f/6.5 3974 mm.

    LRGB - https://www.flickr.com/photos/dcrowson/52827993641/sizes/l/

    This data is from Telescope Live (https://telescope.live/) “One-click Observations.”


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    NGC 4945

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    NGC 4945