Telescope: Optical Mechanics, Inc 0.61 meter cassegrain telescope
Total Exposure: LRGB - 24':12':12':12'
Subexposures: 2 minutes each
Location: Alpine County, CA
Processing:
Aligned/combined all files in AutostarSuite Image Processing software
Imported resulting files to Photoshop 7 via FITS liberator
Adjusted levels and Curves a bit
High Pass Sharpening applied
Description: NGC4725
NGC4725 is a medium sized galaxy positioned around center of a constellation of Coma Berenices. The galaxy isn't so well known because there are many famous galaxies being distributed around this star-field. But has a diameter of 10 arc minutes and 10th magnitude, it's unexpectedly worth seeing. NGC4725 is a galaxy classified in so-called the "Bared galaxy"; it consists of bar-structure across the nuclei and a pair of arms surrounding them. The arms of NGC4725 are coiled up fairly tight, it seems that the arms surround the galaxy in circumference. The small galaxy to the right is NGC4712 at a distance of 200 Mio. Light years.
Cluster of very small [faint] stars, without nebulosity; this cluster is at a short distance from the three stars that form the beginning of the Unicorn's tail.
