NGC 3972 & Co (Göran Nilsson)

Celestial hemisphere: Northern · Constellation: Ursa Major (UMa) · Contains: NGC 3972 · NGC 3977 · NGC 3980 · NGC 3982 · NGC 3990 · NGC 3998 · PGC 213915 · PGC 2490359 · PGC 2490433 · PGC 2490665 · PGC 2491388 · PGC 2491872 · PGC 2491885 · PGC 2491910 · PGC 2492133 · PGC 2492148 · PGC 2492307 · PGC 2492580 · PGC 2493096 · PGC 2493116 · PGC 2493998 · PGC 2494201 · PGC 2495412 · PGC 2495491 · PGC 2495524 · PGC 2495659 · PGC 2496979 · PGC 2497120 · PGC 2497723 · PGC 2499029 · And 9 more.

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NGC 3972 & Co

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NGC 3972 & Co

For some reason this is a rather rarely imaged set of galaxies. Actually, there are galaxies all over the image. Not imaged from home as I lost astrodarkenss up here in Sweden and will enjoy 3-4 months of bright summer nights. So I collected the data for this one from southern Spain using the Margareta Westlund Telescope, owned by the Swedish Amateur Astronomical Society and available remotely to its members. I expect I will now and then log onto it over the summer to keep my processing fingers happy until astrodarkness returns.

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Status	Advanced success
Started	...
Astrometry.net job	9711616
PixInsight job	8FGHDA10I2FIJGSNFSZAN2LP6J2376AA
PixInsight queue size	n/a
PixInsight stage	TASK_LOG

RA (center)	11h56m50s.499
RA (top/left)	11h54m29s.448
RA (top/right)	11h59m00s.428
RA (bottom/right)	11h59m12s.929
RA (bottom/left)	11h54m39s.910

Dec (center)	+55°17′29″.90
Dec (top/left)	+55°05′07″.30
Dec (top/right)	+55°02′51″.93
Dec (bottom/right)	+55°29′40″.77
Dec (bottom/left)	+55°31′58″.81

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