NGC 5907/5906 - The Splinter or Knife-edge Galaxy - is another classic edge-on Spiral Galaxy displaying a prominent dust lane that is located 54.5 million light-years away in the constellation of Draco.
I shot this because I thought it would be an interesting comparison to the galaxy NGC 4565, which I recently published.
This was shot over 3 evenings on the nights of 5-29-22, 5-30-22, and 5-31-22.
During this period of time, there were a lot of drifting thin clouds. Since this galaxy is small and my image scale on this shot was a bit on the low side, I had to be very careful to use only the best frames in integration to ensure a sharp and detailed image. While this reduced my total integration, I think it helped with the detail level of the resulting image.
This was shot with my Astro-Physics 130mm f/8.35 APO sitting on an IOptron CEM60 mount, sporting a ZWO ASI260MM-Pro camera.
The story of the image and complete processing walk-through can be seen on my website at:
https://cosgrovescosmos.com/projects/ngc5907Thanks for looking, and let me know if you have any questions!
CS,
Pat
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