Steven Mohr
NGC5566, NGC5560 & NGC5569 | Interacting Galaxy Group | LHaRGB
This scene features a trio of interacting galaxies found in the constellation of Virgo, being some 70-90 million light years away from Earth. The largest galaxy in the group is NGC 5566, which is a barred spiral galaxy stretching nearly 150,000 light years in diameter. Having widely sweeping spiral arms, with dark dusty lanes, these arms are speckled with new star forming regions throughout. The elongated galaxy to the left of NGC 5566 is the heavily distorted NGC5560. You can just see faint dusty interconnections between NGC 5560 and NGC 5566, providing us some clues that these are in fact interacting. The lower blueish galaxy NGC5569 does not appear to be disturbed, and maybe placed slightly in the foreground.
In the darkness of the surrounding space, the speckled background indicates a sea of background objects, all being in the significant distance.
This image represents only 34% of the cameras full frame, composed of luminance, red, green, blue, and hydrogen alpha filtered colour channels. Thanks for having a look.
Hi res link:
live.staticflickr.com/65535/50577593972_849ecd82d2_o.jpg
Information about the image:
Center (RA, Dec):(215.064, 3.940)
Center (RA, hms):14h 20m 15.436s
Center (Dec, dms):+03° 56' 24.737"
Size:28.7 x 18.8 arcmin
Radius:0.286 deg
Pixel scale:0.733 arcsec/pixel
Orientation:Up is 126 degrees E of N
Instrument: Planewave CDK 12.5 | Focal Ratio: F8
Camera: STXL-11000 + AOX | Mount: AP900GTO
Camera Sensitivity: Lum & Ha: BIN 1x1, RGB: BIN 2x2
Exposure Details: Total: 22.75 hours | Lum: 47 x 900 sec [11.75hr], Ha: 15 x 1200 sec [5.0hr], RGB 16 x 450sec each [6.0hrs]
Viewing Location: Central Victoria, Australia.
Observatory: ScopeDome 3m
Date: June-July 2020
Software Enhancements: CCDStack2, CCDBand-Aid, PS, Pixinsight
Author: Steven Mohr
NGC5566, NGC5560 & NGC5569 | Interacting Galaxy Group | LHaRGB
This scene features a trio of interacting galaxies found in the constellation of Virgo, being some 70-90 million light years away from Earth. The largest galaxy in the group is NGC 5566, which is a barred spiral galaxy stretching nearly 150,000 light years in diameter. Having widely sweeping spiral arms, with dark dusty lanes, these arms are speckled with new star forming regions throughout. The elongated galaxy to the left of NGC 5566 is the heavily distorted NGC5560. You can just see faint dusty interconnections between NGC 5560 and NGC 5566, providing us some clues that these are in fact interacting. The lower blueish galaxy NGC5569 does not appear to be disturbed, and maybe placed slightly in the foreground.
In the darkness of the surrounding space, the speckled background indicates a sea of background objects, all being in the significant distance.
This image represents only 34% of the cameras full frame, composed of luminance, red, green, blue, and hydrogen alpha filtered colour channels. Thanks for having a look.
Hi res link:
live.staticflickr.com/65535/50577593972_849ecd82d2_o.jpg
Information about the image:
Center (RA, Dec):(215.064, 3.940)
Center (RA, hms):14h 20m 15.436s
Center (Dec, dms):+03° 56' 24.737"
Size:28.7 x 18.8 arcmin
Radius:0.286 deg
Pixel scale:0.733 arcsec/pixel
Orientation:Up is 126 degrees E of N
Instrument: Planewave CDK 12.5 | Focal Ratio: F8
Camera: STXL-11000 + AOX | Mount: AP900GTO
Camera Sensitivity: Lum & Ha: BIN 1x1, RGB: BIN 2x2
Exposure Details: Total: 22.75 hours | Lum: 47 x 900 sec [11.75hr], Ha: 15 x 1200 sec [5.0hr], RGB 16 x 450sec each [6.0hrs]
Viewing Location: Central Victoria, Australia.
Observatory: ScopeDome 3m
Date: June-July 2020
Software Enhancements: CCDStack2, CCDBand-Aid, PS, Pixinsight
Author: Steven Mohr