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Observation by Mike Greenhill-Hooper: NGC7497 with galactic clouds

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Mike Greenhill-Hooper

Observer

Mike Greenhill-Hooper

Observed

2026 Nov 01 - 18:30

Uploaded

2026 Nov 07 - 11:50

Objects

NGC7497

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Constellation

Pegasus

Field centre

RA: 23h09m
Dec: +18°13'
Position angle: -27°49'

Field size

0°19' × 0°11'

Equipment
  • Telescope: 20" f/4 Obsession Dobsonian; Paracorr coma corrector
  • ASI294MMPro with LRGB filters
Exposure

4x150 (2x150) frame live stacks for L(RGB) filters; 2s exposure, gain 450, temp 1C, dark corrected

Location

Miradoux, S.W. France

Target name

NGC7497

Title

NGC7497 with galactic clouds

About this image

Images captured with SharpCap Pro, processed with Affinity Photo, GraXpert, and Siril (with BlurX and NoiseX). With a relatively short exposure time at f/4 the dust / cloud in the foreground from our galaxy was difficult to detect and required tone stretching and additional denoising. The galaxy is very small (4x2 arc minutes) and didn't reveal much structure. To me the image of the galaxy looks like a steaming plate of hot food - maybe I was getting hungry in the cold outdoors!

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