On April 3rd there was the best night since a long time and so it was worth taking two targets to capture. The Hamburger galaxy NGC 3628 from the Leo triplet and an additional irregular and weak galaxy, NGC 4236. That offered itself, as I can image the "hamburger" only until about midnight and then the rest of the night could go to the second, which is quite close to Zenith.

From the Hamburg galaxy I made a few luminances almost just a year ago. Together with those of today I come to 18 x 600 sec. At the moment it looks like this:

04.04.2016

The following night also promised to be clear, but after only an hour the clouds came, so I had to break off. A few thin RGBs I have managed nevertheless, which however because of the low position on the horizon look conspicuous:

Again an artificial flatfield is needed:

Result:

and together with the luminance and tiny processing there is an LRGB preview:

For my second object, NGC 4236, there is also a luminance preview. I have now 50 x 600 Sec. half of it was captured near full moon.

18.04.2017

It took me quite a while until I could continue. After all, this night was pretty clear and without moon, which enabled me to complete my two galaxy projects. For both I collected the final color and can now concentrate myself to the processing. For the Hamburg galaxy one can see here the final result.