NGC 1566
From time to time I obtain data sets from remote observatories. One of my favorite providers is Telescope Live with telescopes in e.g. Chile, Australia and Spain. One of the data sets I received, was data from the galaxy NGC 1566, located in the constellation Dorado.
The images were taken with the following equipment (Telescope Live CHI-3):
| Location | El Sauce Observatory, Chile |
| Telescope | ASA RC-1000AZ |
| Focal length [mm] | 6780 |
| Focal ratio | 6.8 |
| Mount | ASA Alt-Az DDM |
| Camera | FLI Proline 16803 |
| Filter | L:R:G:B |
| Exposure time [min] | 20:20:20:20 |
| Resolution | 0.274″/px |
Data calibration and registration and the final processing was done with PixInsight. The result was as follows:
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