Three of a group of six galaxies all within a one-degree field. My camera only sees about a 20-minute field so I was only able to get three of them in, but these are quite different. NGC 5985 is a spiral seen almost face on, 5982 is an elliptical galaxy with very faint outer parts, and 5981 is a spiral seen edge on. (Move your mouse over the image to see them identified.)
Mine is a monochrome picture but a high-resolution, colour picture is very pretty indeed.
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Date and Time: 9th January 2011 22:57 to 23:17 UT Camera: MX716 Telescope: LX200 with 0.33 focal reducer Capture: Starlight Xpress. 20 frames, 60" exposure Processing: star_mx7. Dark-frame subtraction, enhancement factor 25, black level. Irfanview. Conversion to png format. RegiStax. 20 frames stacked, gamma 1.5, histogram 20-255, Gaussian wavelets Scheme 3 PhotoImpact. Vertical flip. |
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