NGC 5907 (wadeh237)

Celestial hemisphere: Northern · Constellation: Draco (Dra) · Contains: NGC 5906 · NGC 5907

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NGC 5907

NGC5907, and edge on spiral galaxy in Draco.

This is the second of three images captured during a trip to a dark sky site south of Prineville, OR in May of 2017. NGC5907 is fairly large and bright, making it a relatively easy imaging target. Despite that, this one had eluded me after several attempts. In one case, I was unable to maintain focus and had other problems with the field. The culprit turned out to be a loose secondary mirror assembly in the telescope. I've had other attempts thwarted by thin high clouds that left me with a poor signal to noise ratio in the data.

I'm happy with the data from this outing. I've been transitioning from Photoshop to PixInsight for (an embarrassingly long) while now. I finally feel like it's starting to feel natural. This is the second image that I have processed to completion without finishing it in Photoshop. I think that the data is good enough that I will probably revisit it again after getting more "seat time" with PixInsight.

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Status	Advanced success
Started	...
Astrometry.net job	1611805
PixInsight job	D71XYQPCKXDH69WOMDM0LZAA2J9KU2A6
PixInsight queue size	n/a
PixInsight stage	TASK_LOG

RA (center)	15h15m51s.988
RA (top/left)	15h17m25s.210
RA (top/right)	15h14m17s.470
RA (bottom/right)	15h14m19s.798
RA (bottom/left)	15h17m25s.817

Dec (center)	+56°19′33″.79
Dec (top/left)	+56°29′30″.15
Dec (top/right)	+56°29′13″.71
Dec (bottom/right)	+56°09′31″.85
Dec (bottom/left)	+56°09′50″.00

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