An interesting duo of spiral galaxies NGC 5965 (edge-on) and NGC 5963 (face-on) is situated in the constellation Draco. While NGC 5965  (huge, with diameter of about 250.000 light years) is located at a distance 150 million light-years from Earth, much smaller NGC 5963 with extraordinarily faint blue spiral arms (~ a low surface brightness galaxy and difficult target) "only" some 40 MLY.

26.-28.6. 2019

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NoName Newton 192/800
+ GPU c.c.
Atik One 6
LRGB Baader.
SW AZEQ-6
50mm guider + Lacerta MGEN
73x5 min. (L)
12x5 min. (R, G, B each), bin 2x2
PixInsight, Photoshop

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