ASTRO: NGC 2857, 2856, 2854

We had some clear nights at the beginning of March, at last a chance to
really plan an imaging run over more than one night.
In the first night (1st of March) the 80% illuminated moon was up, but as it
was quite low it didn't make much of a difference in my city skies.
NGC 2857 is the face on grand design spiral. As it it very faint for my
skies I made sure to include two other, brighter galaxies in the image.

Taken from the middle of Berlin with a 10" Meade ACF at f/12 (2975mm focal
length), G11 mount, Atik 383 L+, 22x10m L, 11x10m RGB each, all binned 2x2
for a scale of 0,79"/pixel.

http://ccd-astronomy.de/temp8/2857colourgut.jpg

Stefan