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

Very good for full moon of Arp 239. Guess from Berlin the full moon isn't much of an issue compared to what it is under my very dark skies since you are already starting very bright. Even 90 degrees away my background goes from 600 to 12,000 with a full moon in 10 minutes. I may do NB but never LRGB. Just too much for me to deal with. I'm spoiled by my dark skies I suppose

Originally Posted by Stefan Lilge

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