Sunday, May 3, 2020

Galaxies NGC 4762 and NGC 4754 - Use of PAE

Both galaxies NGC 4762 and NGC 4754 are located in constellation Virgo and both are part of the Virgo Cluster. NGC 4762 is located at a distance of 60 million lightyears from Earth; NGC 4754 about 53 million light years.


Setting: Nikon D7500 and TAL200K f/8.5, ISO3200 and 46x60s exposure time. Stacking using DeepSkyStacker and final editing using CS4.

The equatorial mount and Synscan v4 was connected to my PC and Stellarium software. After 3 star allignment the mount was set to a nearby star and again corrected via PAE, Point Accurancy Enhancement.  The nearby star was centered and via menu Utililty, PAE corrected. This was a great help to located the galaxies.