NGC6503 with a full moon (lowenthalm)

Celestial hemisphere: Northern · Constellation: Draco (Dra) · Contains: NGC 6503 · PGC 2733888 · TYC4432-1586-1 · TYC4432-808-1

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NGC6503 with a full moon

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NGC6503 with a full moon

Well, desperate for observing time, I observed several hours for 5 straight nights and defied the nearly full moon because the skies were finally clear. This time of year the moon just seems to refuse to go away because of its path along the ecliptic at full moon. Very irritating. The last image I took before the clouds finally ruined the last night was NGC6503, a nearby (15 to 20mly) spiral that is pretty grand. As a sign of the good seeing, note the little galaxy peaking out from behind the faint star at the upper center of the image that makes the star look like a little comet.

The seeing suddenly got very good just before observing this galaxy, so I switched to bin 1 and captured a couple images as fast as I could before clouds halted my data collection. Typical that seeing would get really good just before the clouds wreck the night. I had to remove some moonlight induced noise from the image, color balance out the moonglow and pop the saturation a bit to produce this image. I would have collected half an hour of data if I could have! Triple the data would have brought in the outer envelop and improved the view of the inner dust clouds. Maybe I'll get a chance to collect more images if we get a lucky weather break.

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RA (center)	17h49m24s.878
RA (top/left)	17h50m58s.111
RA (top/right)	17h49m40s.894
RA (bottom/right)	17h47m51s.264
RA (bottom/left)	17h49m09s.150

Dec (center)	+70°08′33″.57
Dec (top/left)	+70°04′44″.41
Dec (top/right)	+70°17′15″.16
Dec (bottom/right)	+70°12′19″.31
Dec (bottom/left)	+69°59′51″.66

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