I was looking for some interesting targets for my 2x setup and found this "little" couple and definitely needed to try it.
NGC 4762 is considered to be the thinnest galaxy of all, and as far as I can tell, this might be probably correct. Fascinating structure, bright inner disk, and very faint outer parts, not a huge bulk in the center either.
NGC 4754 is strange to me as well, it looks like that the inner core is "not aligned" with the outer form, somehow a bit rotated. This might be because of a visual illusion, but I really see the inner part rotated compared to the outer regions.
I was happy again that I got a nice image together with the 2x setup, it would have been really a shame if all those minutes under the clear skies would have resulted in images that are useless.
I looked up how many people here on Astrobin tried this target and did not find many, Gary's image (
https://www.astrobin.com/divr92/?q=) looks for me the best, not a surprise
😊. I wanted to see if anybody else stumbled over what I show in Version D! I looked over my raw images and saw those (must be far) galaxies in all subs, and I was wondering about if I can get any information about them (would love to know how far those are away). Well, I am certainly not the SME (subject-matter expert) on this, maybe someone else can help and show me how to get information like this on the Internet, that would be really nice. No 7 I believe is a star, as probably No 6 is, but No 1-5 look to me to be galaxies. I have never seen a collection of very faint galaxies together like that. Granted, if they are indeed very far away then they are not as close to each other as they look like, but all of them must be then very bright ones, which would be unusual.
* This image was not submitted for IOTD consideration
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