ASTRO: NGC 5278/5279
In the night from April 21 to April 22 I was looking for something to image
far from the nearly full moon that was adding it's light to the city lights.
I was stunned when I stumbled upon the spectacular pair of NGC 5278/5279
near M101 while scanning the sky in Guide9. The couple even have a good
surface brightness.
Taken from Berlin with a 10" Meade ACF at f/8 on an AZ-EQ6 mount, Trius
SX694 camera, 24x5min lum, 11x5min RGB each. Downsized to 0.62
arcseconds/pixel to reduce noise.
Stefan
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