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Abell 2065 Galaxy Cluster


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Instrument

12.5" RCOS @  ~f/9 (2880 mm fl) 0.64 arcsec / pixel.  Zoomify image scale is 0.85 to 3.30 arcsec / pixel.

Mount

Paramount ME

Camera

SBIG STL-11000 w/ internal filter wheel, AstroDon Gen I Filters

Acquisition Data

5/16/2010 to 6/9/2010 Chino Valley, AZ... with CCDAutoPilot3 & CCDSoft,  AOL guided

Exposure

Lum (no filter)  330 min (22 x 15 min, bin 1x1)

RGB                180 min ( 4 x 15 min each, bin 2x2)

Software

  • CCDSoft, CCDStack, Photoshop CS w/ the Fits Liberator plugin. Noel Carboni's actions and Russell Croman's GradientXTerminator.

  • eXcalibrator for (u-g), (g-r) color calibration, using 6 stars from the SDSS-7 database.

  • PixFix32 (pre-beta) to repair hot/cold pixels and column defects.

  • CCDStack to calibrate, register, normalize, data reject, combine the sub exposures, LRGB color, and luminance deconvolution.

  • PhotoShop for LLRGB combine &  on-linear stretching.

Comment

North is to top. 

Abell 2065 is a cluster of galaxies, located at a distance of about 1 billion light-years, in the constellation Corona Borealis. The cluster contains over 400 galaxies, with PCG 54883 as the brightest at magnitude 15.9.