NGC 6962 and Companions

[furgle (Adam)]

Higher resolution here: https://observatory.site/astrophotog...nd_Companions/


Image:

• 78x 450s Luminance
• 20x 450s Red
• 19x 450s Green
• 20x 450s Blue

Total integration 17 hours, 8 minutes.


Hardware:

• Celestron 11" EdgeHD
• Celestron 0.7x EdgeHD focal reducer
• Skywatcher EQ8 Pro mount
• QSI 683-ws8 Camera @ -15°C
• Astronomik deep sky RGB filters
• Starlight Xpress Lodestar X2 Autoguider
• Innovations Foresight ONAG
• Starlight Instruments Feather Touch Focuser

Location:

• Exposed over 6 nights between 27th July and 6th August 2019.
• Orange zone in Brisbane, Australia. (Bortle 7)

[Placidus (Mike and Trish)]

Quite beautiful.

We guess that the elliptical which is seemingly overlapping the main galaxy must be far behind it, many times further away, on the grounds that ellipticals are hugely bigger (being themselves the end product of collisions between many spirals), and furthermore there seems to be no interaction between them.