Observation by Adam Rawlinson: NGC891

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Adam Rawlinson

Observer

Adam Rawlinson

Observed

2024 Nov 10 - 23:10

Uploaded

2024 Nov 11 - 14:52

Objects

The Silver Sliver Galaxy (NGC891)
NGC898
NGC906

Equipment

Primaluce Airy 90 APO
SXPro 694 Trius C

Exposure

3000sec - RGB - OSC

Location

Sandhurst UK

Target name

NGC891 and friends

Title

NGC891

About this image

Well I made the most of the first clear evening in weeks.

NGC891 is a popular target. This "edge_on" spiral sports a classy dust band and is a great example of its type. Radio observations result in this being classifed as non-barred spiral Type Sa

But looking away from this visual treat you can see lots of other galaxies too. I will upload a super imposed atlas in the next image, but the more you look the more you see.

I like NGC 906 best - bottom left. Its a tiny faint spiral, an SBab type. Mag 12.7V at a distance of 63Mpc (some 200million light years)
Needs more power and the 10"LX200 - but thats for another night!

The original image is colour, but i have extracted the Luminance channel here - it better displays the small fuzzies and there was a bit of background glow from the moon giving an unpleasent blue wash to the image.

Files associated with this observation

NGC-891-L.jpg (514.5 kB)

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