Celestial hemisphere:  Southern  ·  Constellation: Grus (Gru)  ·  Contains:  IC 5308  ·  NGC 7582  ·  NGC 7590  ·  NGC 7599
Grus Triplet, Nicholas Jones
Grus Triplet
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Grus Triplet, Nicholas Jones
Grus Triplet
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Description

An image of three of the Grus Quartet of Galaxies - NGC 7582 (left), NGC 7599 (right) and NGC 7590 (middle).

The forth one (NGC 7552) - a lovely face-on spiral galaxy wouldn't fit in my field of view with other galaxies so

I had to content myself with the Grus triplet!



Dates: 7, 8 and 10 September

Optics: AG Optical Systems 12.5" iDK,

Focal length 2121 mm

Camera: mono FLI ML16200 with a Loadstar X2 on an Astrodon MOAG off-axis guider.

Acquisition: Software: Sequence Generator Pro

LRGB : 33 x 5min lum

32 x 5min red

29 x 5min green

33 x 5min blue

total integration 128 x 5min

= 10 hours 40 mins

Astrodon Gen II filters

Sensor temp: -30

Calm conditions

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