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 |
Optics:
Camera:
Filters:
Mount:
Guider
Expozice: Software: |
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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