CGCG 378-15 --- Einstein's Cross
From the author of Sizing Up The Universe
RA = 22h:40m:29.78s, Dec = +03d:21m:29.5s
Best example of gravitational lensing.
01:22 EDT, August 31, 2010
Starlight Express SXV-H9 on 10" RC
Luminance = best 60 out of 160 five-second frames
Cropped, enlarged 3x, fat-tail Richardson-Lucy deconv (100 iterations)
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Unenlarged long exposure showing galaxy CGCG 378-15.
21:03 EDT, October 13, 2010
Starlight Express SXV-H9 on 10" RC
Luminance = 10 ten-minute frames
Fat-tail Richardson-Lucy deconv (4 iterations), gamma stretch.