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CartographerEvery268 on November 4, 2025 1:22 pm NGC 660 – Polar Galaxy 45M light years away The mess made when two galaxies collided over a billion years ago. -Telescope: Celestron 9.25” SCT @ f/6.3 w/reducer -Integration: 14x300s in Bortle 2 -Camera: ZWO ASI 2600MC @ -10*/100g -Guiding: Celestron off-axis guider w/174MM mini -Mount: Celestron CGX -Control: ASIAir Plus -Processing: PixInsight (stacking, solving, cropping, background extraction, spectro color calibration, BlurX, StarX, statistical stretch, star stretch, curves, NoiseX, pixel math)
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NGC 660 – Polar Galaxy
45M light years away
The mess made when two galaxies collided over a billion years ago.
-Telescope: Celestron 9.25” SCT @ f/6.3 w/reducer
-Integration: 14x300s in Bortle 2
-Camera: ZWO ASI 2600MC @ -10*/100g
-Guiding: Celestron off-axis guider w/174MM mini
-Mount: Celestron CGX
-Control: ASIAir Plus
-Processing: PixInsight (stacking, solving, cropping, background extraction, spectro color calibration, BlurX, StarX, statistical stretch, star stretch, curves, NoiseX, pixel math)