Wednesday 7 November 2012

NGC7814 and NGC5985

NGC7814. This spiral galaxy looks similar to the Sombrero galaxy and lies deep in the
constellation of Pegasus at a distance of about 40 million light years. A 10", f/4.8 Newtonian was used.  Sub frames of 60 seconds were used without autoguiding . The total exposure time for each colour filter was forty minutes with matching dark frames:


NGC5985 . This group of galaxies is in the constellation of Draco . Without using an
auto guider, one minute sub frames were captured and stacked with matching dark frames . The total exposure time for each colour channel was thirty minutes: