NGC 4274

[dcrowson]

NGC 4274 (UGC 7377, PGC 39724 and others) is a large barred spiral galaxy located approximately 55 million light-years away in Coma Berenices.

Luminance – 54x600s – 540 minutes – binned 1x1
RGB – 22:16:17x300s – 110:80:85 minutes each – binned 2x2

815 minutes total exposure – 13 hours 35 minutes

Imaged May 28th, 30th and 31st and June 2nd, 2022 and December 16th, 2023 and January 11th, 2024 from Dark Sky New Mexico at Rancho Hidalgo (Animas, New Mexico) with a SBIG STF-8300M on an Astro-Tech AT12RCT at f/8 2432mm.

LRGB - https://www.flickr.com/photos/dcrowson/ ... 8/sizes/l/

This one has a lot of data because I didn’t realize that I had imaged it previously.



Dan

[JSBach1801]

Very nice capture!