- Data collection using:
CCD Commander
ASCOM POTH
MaxPoint
CCDSoft
FocusMax
PinPoint
TheSky6 Pro
- Image Calibration - Maxim DL
- Image Registration - Maxim DL
- Image Stacking - Maxim DL
- Luminace imade Deconvolved 25 iterations in CCD Stack
- Post processing in Adobe Photoshop CS3 Extended
NGC 891 is an edge on unbarred spiral galaxy about 30 million light-years away in the constellation Andromeda. It was discovered by William Herschel in August 1783. The galaxy in a member of NGC 1023 group of galaxies in the Local Supercluster. It has a H II nucleus.
Visually, the object is visible in small to moderate size telescopes as a faint elongated smear of light with a dust lane visible in larger apertures.
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