The Angel and The Dragon (NGC7497 and the part of MBM 54 molecular cloud) (Stan Volskiy)

Celestial hemisphere: Northern · Constellation: Pegasus (Peg) · Contains: HD218728 · NGC 7497

The Angel and The Dragon (NGC7497 and the part of MBM 54 molecular cloud)

Spiral galaxy NGC 7497 is located in the Pegasus constellation in a distance of 59 million light years and magnitude 12,3. MBM 54 is a faint molecular cloud which is located around 900 light years from our solar system in the outer regions of our galaxy. NGC 7497 is over 60,000 times farther from us than the foreground molecular clouds.
Background galaxies are of particular interest. The most interesting are collected in a collage shown below

Sometimes, dust takes bizarre shapes. I see a very realistic figure of an angel or girl.

There is also a dragon nearby. I asked an artist friend to draw the outlines of these figures.

Technical Data:
Telescope/lens: ASA 20" f/3.8 Corrected Newtonian Astrograph
Camera: FLI Proline 16803
Mount: DDM85 PRO
Lum 50*10min
Red 29*10min
Green 25*10min
Blue 33*10min
Total: 22 hours.
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Outline image by Wen Fermis

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Description: Background galaxies collage

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RA (center)	23h09m01s.333
RA (top/left)	23h07m09s.845
RA (top/right)	23h07m14s.736
RA (bottom/right)	23h10m52s.388
RA (bottom/left)	23h10m48s.778

Dec (center)	+18°08′48″.82
Dec (top/left)	+18°37′59″.99
Dec (top/right)	+17°38′45″.76
Dec (bottom/right)	+17°39′38″.10
Dec (bottom/left)	+18°38′51″.78

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