that's a bunch of galaxies!

It makes me think of how I need to image Stephan's Quintet this year!


"Stefan Lilge" wrote in message
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Last night had very good transparency and not too bad seeing, so
conditions were quite good by city standards in spite of the half moon.
To get the field I wanted I had to switch from guidescope to
off-axis-guider as adding the off-axis-guider gives a larger distance
between reducer and camera, and I had to rotate the camera 90 degrees, so
north is to the left in this image.

The "large" galaxy to the left is NGC 5389, above it NGC 5379. A bit above
the center of the image UGC 8859 can be faintly seen, the rather bright
NGC 5376 is to the right.

Taken from the middle of Berlin with a 10" Meade ACF at f/6.7 (image scale
ist 0,79 arcseconds/pixel) on a G11 mount, SXV-H9 camera, 39x5 minutes.

The image can also be found at
http://ccd-astronomy.de/temp2/5389-39x5gut.jpg

Stefan