Observation by Kevin Gurney: ARP 204 and friends

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Kevin Gurney

Observer

Kevin Gurney

Observed

2021 Sep 27 - 21:35

Uploaded

2021 Oct 04 - 10:40

Objects

Arp 204

Equipment

Altair Astro 10in Ritchey-Chretien truss tube
ZWO ASI 1600MM cool
Fornax 102 mount
Atik filter wheel
OAG and SX Lodestar
Baader LUM filter

Exposure

95 mins of Luminance filter

Location

Embourie, Charente, France

Target name

ARP 204

Title

ARP 204 and friends

About this image

One of Halton Arp's Catalogue of Peculiar Galaxies, in a field with three other prominent galaxies.

Small galaxies are often not that photogenic, but the three galactic groups and the bright foreground stars have a pleasant symmetry here.

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Alan Thomas, Ron Arbour, Graham Winstanley

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