M102, NGC5907 & Vicinity LRGB Wide FOV - First Light (Ben Koltenbah)

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

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M102, NGC5907 & Vicinity LRGB Wide FOV - First Light

This is the last of my first light images with the new Tak FSQ-106EDX4. I did not accumulate sufficient RGB frames to make it worth my while to process them, so this one is luminance only. I'm more pleased with the way NGC5907 came out, not M102. The latter is blown out with at least a glimpse of the dust band around its rim.

What was more fun with this image was to crop it several different ways and explore the various galaxies. I've made three cropped images, the first highlighting NGC5907, which came out well despite the low integration time as well as lower resolution. The second highlights M102, which as I said was tough to process in tandem with the rest of the image. The third highlights a pair of interesting galaxies, NGC5905 (face-on barred spiral with two symmetrical main arms) and NGC5908 (edge-on likely spiral galaxy with dark dust lanes around the rim). I did an internet search on the latter one and found an APOD showing these two from Sep 29, 2006.

This has been a fun first light to process, an unusually prolific night for me. I hope you have enjoyed these images.

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RA (center)	15h12m51s.28
RA (top/left)	15h17m03s.73
RA (top/right)	15h08m39s.60
RA (bottom/right)	15h08m42s.96
RA (bottom/left)	15h16m58s.27

Dec (center)	+56°22′56″.1
Dec (top/left)	+56°37′37″.9
Dec (top/right)	+56°37′49″.4
Dec (bottom/right)	+56°07′37″.10
Dec (bottom/left)	+56°06′56″.7

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