NGC 3115
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 3115, located in the constellation Sextans.
The images were taken with the following equipment (Telescope Live CHI-1):
| Location | El Sauce Observatory, Chile |
| Telescope | Planwave CDK24 |
| Focal length [mm] | 3900 |
| Focal ratio | 6.5 |
| Mount | Mathis MI-1000/1250 |
| Camera | FLI Proline 9000 |
| Filter | L:R:G:B |
| Exposure time [min] | 100:100:100:100 |
| Resolution | 0.62″/px |
Data calibration and registration and the final processing was done with PixInsight. The result was as follows:
In the field were quiet a lot of quasars (see annotation). The two most distant of them are:
WISEA J100456.93-075506.0 with a redshift of 2.5 and an apparent magB of 19.93 (2017,PASA,34,25).
MQ J100534.69-074837.9 with a redshift of 2.1 and an apparent magB of 22.18 (2017,PASA,34,25).
The faintest object in this image has an apparent magnitude of approx. 22.2 magB (2017,PASA,34,25).
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