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Image Equipment Details
Exposure Details
Software Used
  • Rancho Del Sol Observatory, Camino, Ca
  • RCOS 20" Truss F8.3
  • Paramount ME
  • Apogee Alta U09000
  • SBIG ST402 Guider
  • Astrodon MegaMoag off axis guider
  • Astrodon 2nd Generation 50mm Square Filters
  • Luminance 620 minutes
  • Red = 180 minutes
  • Blue = 120 minutes
  • Green = 180 minutes
  • Ha = 0
  • SII = 0
  • OIII = 0
  • CCDAP 4
  • MaxDL 5
  • Pinpoint
  • Thesky 6
  • Pempro
  • CCDstack2 / CCDIS
  • Photoshop CS4
 
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This image of NGC4216 is being studied by Dr. David Martinez-Delgado of the Max-Planck Institute in collaboration of the Star Stream Survey

This high contrast inverted image shows the streams and spikes as the result of a recent merger with a dwarf galaxy. The Astronomical Journal paper describing this and other galaxies in the pilot survey is published Here.