Jim Burnell's CCD Images - Arp 269 Clicking on the image will display a high-resolution view.

 

Object: Arp 269 (NGC4485 & NGC4490)	Interacting Galaxies	Const.: Canes Venatici
Camera: SXV-H9	Scope: Vixen R200SS	Mount: Losmandy Titan
Filter(s): IR block	Exposure: 4x8m	TeleVue Paracorr
Arp 269, also known as NGC4485 & NGC4490, a pair of interacting galaxies in Canes Venatici. A stack of 4 eight minute exposures using an SXV-H9 CCD camera on a Vixen R200SS 8" f/4 Newtonian with a Paracorr. The image was calibrated, defect-corrected and stacked, and a Gamma Scaling was performed using AIP4WINV2. This image has been resampled down from its original size of 1392x1040.