NGC 5905/5908

This pair in Draco is one of the last nice spring galaxies before summer
galaxy drought. This means that I have imaged them before, but only in b/w.
I recycled this old luminance, which (although taken with a different camera
(SXV-H9)) had almost the same field and scale as the new images.
I spiced it up with data from four nights in April 2015.

Taken from Berlin with a 10" Meade ACF at f/8 on a G11 mount, Trius SX 694
camera, 95x5min L, 24x5min each for RGB.

Stefan

I'd go nuts trying to image though your skies. You picked up some of the faint halo of the large central bulge of 5908. I had to work to get it to show in my far darker skies. I suppose a half moon or maybe even full moon gives me darker skies than you get at new moon yet I shut down once the moon is anything more than a crescent as I find the glow more than I want to deal with. Guess I'm severely spoiled!

Rick

Originally Posted by Stefan Lilge

This pair in Draco is one of the last nice spring galaxies before summer
galaxy drought. This means that I have imaged them before, but only in b/w.
I recycled this old luminance, which (although taken with a different camera
(SXV-H9)) had almost the same field and scale as the new images.
I spiced it up with data from four nights in April 2015.

Taken from Berlin with a 10" Meade ACF at f/8 on a G11 mount, Trius SX 694
camera, 95x5min L, 24x5min each for RGB.

Stefan