NGC 4631 (UGC7865, Arp 281) Galaxy in Canes Venatici

Located at: RA 12 hours 42 minutes 05 seconds, Dec +32 degrees 32 minutes 18 seconds

Size: 15.4' x 2.6'; Magnitude: 9.8 blue; Class: SB(s)d sp

North is up

West to the right

Telescope:

 8" f5 Newtonian reflector

Camera:

 ST-8XME, self-guided, binned 1x1, temp -20c, camera control MaxIm DL 4.56

Image:

Lumicon Deep Sky filter, 480 minutes (48 x 10 minute subs), 06/11/12/13/14/2008; seeing 2.3-3.5 FWHM per CCDStack

Processing:

CCDStack 1.3.7, Photoshop 7.0

Location:

 Rolling Roof Observatory, Thousand Oaks, CA 91360 (+34d 13m 29s -118h 52m 20s)