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NGC 4244, also known as Caldwell 26, is an edge-on loose spiral galaxy in the constellation Canes Venatici, and is part of the M94 Group or Canes Venatici I Group, a galaxy group relatively close to the Local Group containing the Milky Way.

With an apparent V-band magnitude of 10.18, NGC 4244 lies approximately 4.3 megaparsecs (14 million light years) away. A nuclear star cluster and halo is located near the centre of this galaxy.

Location & Date	Backyard, Abbott Observatory- Long Island, NY,  March 2021
Telescope	TMB130SS F/7 APO, Moonlite focuser, Losmandy G11 Gemini Image scale 1.54 arcsec/pixel
Camera	SBIG ST-10XME Baader  L R G B  filters CCD temp -15°C
Exposures	Lum 24x5m  Red-6x10m Green -6x10m Blue-6x10m   Bin 1x1
Planning & Acquisition	Image planning - Sequence Generator Pro Image acquisition - Sequence Generator Pro w/PinPoint & PHD2 (guiding)
Processing	CCDStack - calibration, debloom, normalize, alignment Images Plus - LRGB combine, adaptive Richardson-Lucy deconvolution Adobe Photoshop -   Additional detailing, Noise reduction, JPEG conversion Topaz Sharpen AI  & Gigapixel AI - Finer detail processing