Faint Spiral Galaxy IC5332

[furgle]

IC 5332 is a very faint spiral galaxy 39 million light years away. It is a challenging target in light polluted skies. While processing the image I noticed several small galaxies around and in the background of its spiral arms. I'm interested in revisiting this target again with a much longer focal length to see what detail I can tease from these.

Image:



52x 600s Luminance bin2x2
13x 600s Red bin2x2
16x 600s Green bin2x2
14x 600s Blue bin2x2

Total exposure 16 hours 50 minutes.


Hardware:



Skywatcher Black Diamond ED120
SkyWatcher EQ8 Pro Mount
QSI 683-ws8 Camera @ -15°C
Astronomik Typ2 LRGB filters
Starlight Xpress Lodestar X2 Autoguider
Innovations Foresight On Axis Guider
Starlight Instruments Focus Boss II

Location:



Orange zone in Brisbane, Australia. (Bortle 7)
Imaged over 4 nights, new moon.

Better resolution here: IC5332 (http://adam.lundie.com.au/astrophotography/Faint_Spiral_Galaxy_IC5332/Faint_Spiral_Galaxy_IC5332_20170926 .html)

[strongmanmike]

Geez Adam, talk about taking on the next to impossible :eyepop: :lol:...still, not a bad result considering :thumbsup: I would definitely think this would be one for a nice dark sky though...and perhaps a bit better image scale..?

Mike

[rustigsmed]

challenging work indeed Adam!!
still a nice result with the refractor though!

russ