Imaging telescopes or lenses: Celestron C11 Celestron
Imaging cameras: 40D Canon
Mounts: CGEM Celestron
Guiding telescopes or lenses: 80mm EON Orion
Guiding cameras: Orion Star Shooter
Software: photoshop · Noel's Tools
Dates:May 7, 2011
Frames: 26x120"
Integration: 0.9 hours
Avg. Moon age: 3.99 days
Avg. Moon phase: 16.95%
Astrometry.net job: 3443301
RA center: 15h 15' 47"
DEC center: +56° 21' 50"
Pixel scale: 2.427 arcsec/pixel
Orientation: 119.215 degrees
Field radius: 0.322 degrees
Resolution: 800x524
Locations: Leesburg home, Leesburg , Florida, United States
NGC 5907 is a spiral galaxy located approximately 50 million light years from Earth. It has an anomalously low metallicity and few detectable giant stars, being apparently composed almost entirely of dwarf stars. It is a member of the NGC5866 Group. NGC5907 has long been considered a prototypical example of a warped spiral in relative isolation. Then in 2006, an international team of astronomers announced the presence of an extended tidal stream surrounding the galaxy that challenges this picture and suggests the gravitational perturbations induced by the stream progenitor may be the cause for the warp. NGC 5907 is also known at the Knife Edge or Splinter galaxy. The galaxy was discovered in 1788 by William Herschel.
Observation Notes : Bright, large, very much elongated, bright middle at 100X. At 200X the core is gradually brighter with a stellar nucleus.
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