Barred Spiral Galaxy IC5092

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Rarely photographed, the barred spiral galaxy IC5092 lies 150 million light years away in the southern sky. Its outer arms seem to form a ring around the inner barred structure.


The galaxy is shown illuminated by stray light from a bright star just outside the field of view.


Higher resolution here (http://observatory.site/astrophotography/Barred_Spiral_Galaxy_IC5092/)



Image:


39x 600s luminance
16x 300s red
20x 300s green
22x 300s blue

Total integration 11 hours 20 minutes.


Hardware:


Celestron 11" EdgeHD
Skywatcher EQ8 Pro mount
QSI 683-ws8 Camera @ -15°C
Astronomik luminance, deep sky RGB filters
Starlight Xpress Lodestar X2 Autoguider
Starlight Xpress Active Optics
Innovations Foresight On Axis Guider
Starlight Instruments Focus Boss II

Location:


Orange zone in Brisbane, Australia. (Bortle 7)
Imaged over 3 nights. New Moon.

Software:


Planning & camera alignment with Aladin 10
Captured with TheSkyX Professional
Guiding with PHD2
FocusLock live focusing
PixInsight: Calibrate, align, stack, crop, dynamic background extraction, reduce noise, light deconvolution, non-linear stretch, HDR multiscale transform, LRGB combination, curves.

[Atmos]

Really nice galaxy shot :thumbsup:
That out of field star makes it look like the galaxy is going into warp or something ;)

[Geoff45]

Good resolution, nice colour and an interesting object. To nitpick, there is a bit of colour noise in the galaxy, especially in the outer halo.
Geoff

[Placidus]

Very fine. As Geoff said, great colour and detail.

We like the distant distorted galaxy close in toward 2 o'clock from the main one.

The Vogon / Klingon tractor beam makes for a nice story, but this time they've bitten off more than they can chew.

Best,
MnT