NGC5906/5907 in Draco - the splinter galaxy (GalacticRAVE)

Celestial hemisphere: Northern · Constellation: Draco (Dra) · Contains: NGC 5906 · NGC 5907

Powered byPixInsight

NGC5906/5907 in Draco - the splinter galaxy

Powered byPixInsight

NGC5906/5907 in Draco - the splinter galaxy

NGC5907, also known as the knife-edge galaxy or the splinter galaxy, is an essentially bulgeless Sc galaxy which we can see nearly edge on, thus revealing very prominent dust lanes. Its peculiarity is that only very few giant stars are detectable in NGC5907, most of the light apparently comes from (relatively low metallicity) dwarf stars. The fainter part of the galaxy westward of the dust lanes has the NGC number 5906.

The splinter galaxy received quite a bit of popularity in the past 20 years: Despite its relative isolation it features a very extended but faint (and partially controversial) tidal tail. Not visible though in this image for sure, it would need a much deeper exposure (difficult to achieve in the short northern summer nights), less moon (the image were taken at bright time) and a darker sky (imaging from suburbia). Furthermore, I am still a bit struggling with proper flats for my new equipment. Maybe some later year...

Data were taken on May 19, 20, and 23

Astrophotography Germany
AstroBin Platform open discussions community forum
PixInsight Addicts
Schmidt-Cassegrain Telescope (SCT) Imagers
Imaged with N.I.N.A.
Suburban Astrophotography
CMOS Imagers
Astrophotography from home
N.I.N.A. Users
Deep Sky Northern Hemisphere
Images from the EdgeHD Series

Galaxies

Please note: The following tables are updated every 24 hours.

Distribution of astrophotographers

This table shows the number of distinct astrophotographers who have been assigned and IOTD/TP award compared to the total number of images awarded.
	Distinct awarded users	Total awarded images
Image of the day
Top picks
Top pick nominations

Distribution of subject types

This table shows the distribution of awards per subject type, compared to the popularity of images of that subject type.
	Image of the day	Top pick	Top pick nominations	Total submitted
Deep sky
Solar system
Extremely wide field
Star trails
Northern lights
Noctilucent clouds
Landscape

Distribution of data sources

This table shows the distribution of awards per data source, compared to the popularity of images acquired from that data source.
	Image of the day	Top pick	Top pick nominations	Total submitted
Backyard
Traveller
Own remote observatory
Amateur hosting facility
Public amaeteur data
Professional, scientific grade data
Mix of multiple sources
Other
Unknown

The “AstroBin Image of the Day and Top Picks”, or IOTD/TP, is a long-running system to promote beautiful, interesting, peculiar, or otherwise amazing astrophotographs, with a focus on technical excellence. Learn more.

Submitted The date and time when you submitted this image for IOTD/TP consideration.	...
Views by Submitters (available since September 19th, 2023) Every image is assigned to 50% of available Submitters. In the event that at least 80% of them don't view the image before its time in the IOTD/TP process expires, it's assigned to the other 50% of Submitters and the process begins anew.
Promotions by Submitters When 3 distinct Submitters promote the image, it moves on to the next stage of the process: evaluation for Top Pick status. This requirement, in addition to anonymization of images and distribution to only a subset of them, prevents biases and ensures that the best images are selected.
Promotions by Reviewers When 3 distinct Reviewers promote the image, it moves on to the next stage of the process: evaluation for IOTD status.
Early dismissal Staff members have a lot of images to inspect on a daily basis, and they can dismiss images if they believe they don't meet the requirements for IOTD/TP selection. If an image is dismissed 5 times, it's removed from the process. This streamlines the process and ensures that any bias present in promotions could be overruled by other staff members.

Status	Advanced success
Started	...
Astrometry.net job	9912814
PixInsight job	VGSUBZITAWXLTTLW7JHS328BSL88TJS0
PixInsight queue size	n/a
PixInsight stage	TASK_LOG

RA (center)	15h15m54s.750
RA (top/left)	15h18m23s.652
RA (top/right)	15h13m24s.410
RA (bottom/right)	15h13m26s.361
RA (bottom/left)	15h18m21s.958

Dec (center)	+56°19′36″.61
Dec (top/left)	+56°33′15″.46
Dec (top/right)	+56°33′15″.53
Dec (bottom/right)	+56°05′46″.66
Dec (bottom/left)	+56°05′46″.78

Image Index:

Contribution Index (beta):

NGC5906/5907 in Draco - the splinter galaxy

NGC5906/5907 in Draco - the splinter galaxy

Equipment

Acquisition details

Description

Comments

Sky plot

Histogram

In these public groups

In these collections

Image Index:

Contribution Index (beta):

NGC5906/5907 in Draco - the splinter galaxy

NGC5906/5907 in Draco - the splinter galaxy

Equipment

Acquisition details

Description

Comments

Sky plot

Histogram

In these public groups

In these collections

Notifications

AstroBin is in READ ONLY mode

Sorry :-(

Sorry :-(

Sorry :-(

Are you really sure?

Warning!

Warning!

Are you sure?

Report abuse

Slideshow settings

IOTD/TP stats (last [x] days)

Distribution of astrophotographers

Distribution of subject types

Distribution of data sources

Sorry

Sorry

Share

Upload new revision

Upload uncompressed source (XISF/FITS/PSD/TIFF)

Delete image and all its revisions?

Delete original image?

Delete all other versions?

Delete all revisions?

IOTD/TP stats

The following people like this image

The following people bookmarked this image

Warning

Flag malfunctioning thumbnails

Contains

Remove yourself as a collaborator

Plate-solving information