NGC5371, Hickson 68, PGC 49480 and a few bright stars (GalacticRAVE)

Celestial hemisphere: Northern · Constellation: Canes Venatici (CVn) · Contains: HD121147 · HD121197 · NGC 5350 · NGC 5353 · NGC 5354 · NGC 5355 · NGC 5358 · NGC 5371

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NGC5371, Hickson 68, PGC 49480 and a few bright stars

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NGC5371, Hickson 68, PGC 49480 and a few bright stars

The area around NGC5371 is a quite interesting and aesthetically appealing field: NGC5371 is a nice spiral galaxy on its own right, as ist the Hickson compact group 68 featuring
NGC 5350 (another nice barred spiral), the pair of NGC 5353 and NGC5354, and a few other galaxies. The setting of this pair of objects at comparable distances - NGC 5371 (some 113 Mly) and Hickson 68 (some 100 Mly away) is already quite appealing, but gets nicely rounded off by the two-arm spiral PGC 49480 in the lower left, which is also located at a comparable distance.

Bright stars are often a nuisance in deep sky imaging, in particular if the are close to the targeted deep sky object, but here the colorful HD 121197 (yellow), HD 121147 (blue) near Hickson 68, and the yellow BD+41 2441 (near NGC5371) add nicely to the overall ensemble, I think.

Data were taken on 2024 May 5, 8 and 9.

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RA (center)	13h54m33s.276
RA (top/left)	13h56m28s.645
RA (top/right)	13h52m37s.474
RA (bottom/right)	13h52m38s.584
RA (bottom/left)	13h56m28s.299

Dec (center)	+40°20′50″.46
Dec (top/left)	+40°35′29″.16
Dec (top/right)	+40°35′21″.53
Dec (bottom/right)	+40°06′07″.55
Dec (bottom/left)	+40°06′11″.76

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