Jim Burnell's CCD Images - NGC3718 & Hickson 56 Clicking on the image will display a full-frame view.

 

Object: NGC3718 (Arp 214) & Hickson 56	Galaxy	Const.: Ursa Major
Camera: SXV-H9	Scope: Vixen VC200L	Mount: Losmandy Titan
Filter(s): IR block	Exposure: 16x4m	Binned 2x2
This image of NGC3718 (Arp 214) and Hickson 56 in Ursa Major was acquired using an SXV-H9 CCD camera mounted on a Vixen VC200L, an 8-inch f/9 aspheric (VISAC) Cassegrain. The image is a stack of 16 four-minute exposures binned 2x2 that were stacked using AIP4Win. Click on the image to display a map of the field that identifies the major galaxies. This image has been stretched pretty hard and given a strong gamma boost to show up the heavily distorted tidal tail and the myriad of faint galaxies peppering the background.

 

Object: NGC3718 (Arp 214) & Hickson 56	Galaxy	Const.: Ursa Major
Camera: SXV-H9	Scope: Vixen R200SS	Mount: Losmandy Titan
Filter(s): IR block	Exposure: 20x8m	TeleVue Paracorr
Galaxy NGC3718 (Arp 214) and Hickson Compact Group 56 in Ursa Major. The full-frame view also shows the galaxy NGC3729 and a host of faint fuzzies in the background. This image was acquired under a very bright 9-day old moon and extremely dry sky conditions. The image is a stack of 20 eight minute exposures (for a total of 160 minutes), acquired using an SXV-H9 CCD camera on a Vixen R200SS 8" f/4 Newtonian equipped with a Paracorr. The exposures were calibrated, defect-corrected and stacked using AIP4WIN. This image has been cropped down from its original size of 1376x1032 and rotated 90 degrees.