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Gravitational lensing in abell 2218

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Image one shows my image

Image two shows the Hubble’s image

Image three shows uncropped image

Equipment

Heq5 pro mount

660mm fl 102 ap scope

240mm fl 60ap guide scope

Asi533mc pro camera

Asi185mc guide camera

Asi air plus

Uv/ir cut filter

Processing

60x300s frames from bortle 4 75% moon

Plate solve

Spcc

Graxpert background removal

Seti astro sharpen

Gradient correction

Generalised hyperbolic stretch

Black point stretch

Extract luminence layer

Generalised hyperbolic stretch

Invert colour

The green circles on my image show where I believe I have captured gravitational lensing the red circles show where I could’ve possibly captured gravitational lensing however I am unable to determine whether it is lensing or noise.

The blue circles on my image show reference point where I have overlaid my image with the Hubble’s image to determine whether or not I have captured gravitational lensing.…

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