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
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.