NGC 6503 - A Lonely Dwarf Spiral (Jason Guenzel)

Celestial hemisphere: Northern · Constellation: Draco (Dra) · Contains: NGC 6503

NGC 6503 - A Lonely Dwarf Spiral, Jason Guenzel

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NGC 6503 - A Lonely Dwarf Spiral

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NGC 6503 - A Lonely Dwarf Spiral

I saw a Hubble image presented in an article titled "At the Edge of the Abyss" that brought my attention to this lonely galaxy. It sits perched on the edge of the Local Void so really, just beyond this is absolutely nothing for a really, really long way. I found it interesting looking at what I shot here that several fuzzies can be seen in the distance. I haven't looked them up yet, but I'd expect those to be quite distant indeed.

Unfortunately, I can't get an image under my belt without some technical mishap. I found after shooting about 5.5hours on this that dithering was not active. I had a lot of pattern noise show up in the background. I will return and shoot more if I get time to try to get a stacking rejection algorithm to hide it. Just keep saving for some new equipment... Here is almost 5 hours of the best data that weren't destroyed by the AVX tracking.

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