NGC 7814 - the little sombrero (Ian Dixon)

Celestial hemisphere: Northern · Constellation: Pegasus (Peg) · Contains: IC 5381 · NGC 7814 · PGC 1496485 · PGC 1499251 · PGC 1500064 · PGC 1500199 · PGC 1502345 · PGC 1504510 · PGC 212453 · PGC 259

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NGC 7814 - the little sombrero

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NGC 7814 - the little sombrero

I have spent three sessions chasing this little guy, one night was extremely windy, another was marked by the death of a sundry lead acid battery.

This evening, the gods were smiling on me, or at least had settled down enough to watch my struggles, and I managed to get 3 hours on it (NGC 7814) with decent guiding. And, so here we have the "Little Sombrero". I didn't wear my sombrero while imaging this one, but it would have been a propos.

There are a number of tiny cool galaxies in and around the big fellow. I tried to process to show the nice sharp dust lane in this NGC.

Imaged at Sandilands park, Bortle 2 ish... a nice steady night, great seeing and +21*C... luxury.

Wiki says - "NGC 7814 (also known as UGC 8 or Caldwell 43) is a spiral galaxy about 40 million light-years away in the constellation Pegasus. The galaxy is seen edge-on from Earth. It is sometimes referred to as "the little sombrero", a miniature version of Messier 104. The star field behind NGC 7814 is known for its density of faint, remote galaxies."

Two Kevins, a David and a Gail were the astro friends on hand to help out.

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Description: Some increase in brightness and exposure in PS... not sure if its my cup of tea. I think it gets noisy,

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RA (center)	00h03m12s.310
RA (top/left)	00h03m35s.932
RA (top/right)	00h04m26s.539
RA (bottom/right)	00h02m48s.281
RA (bottom/left)	00h01m57s.682

Dec (center)	+16°08′40″.32
Dec (top/left)	+15°47′51″.37
Dec (top/right)	+16°20′57″.28
Dec (bottom/right)	+16°29′36″.54
Dec (bottom/left)	+15°56′17″.10

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