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UGC 3697 & UGC 3714

UGC 3697 spiral galaxy type Sd:pec and UGC 3714 spiral galaxy type S?pec (lower left) in
Camelopardalis. UGC 3697 is also known as “The Integral Sign Galaxy” due to the prominent warp
of it's optical disk. Taken Jan. 23, 27, Feb 2 and Feb 3, 2011. Imaged with CCD Lab’s Q285M
and a Celestron EdgeHD 9.25 at f10 on a Losmandy G11/Gemini mount. The L subframes were
8 minutes binned 1x1, while the RGB subframes were 2.5 minutes binned 2x2 resulting in the following
total exposures L:R:G:B (min) = 328:55:55:55. Captured with Nebulosity, calibrated and sigma
combined in Iris with other processing using PixInsight LE and Photoshop CS. North is up.


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