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Old 27-04-2014, 10:10 PM
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NGC5746 / NGC 5740 galaxies in Virgo

There's fun to be had with galaxies in Virgo. NGC5746 is a mag 10.6 galaxy and the smaller NGC5740 at mag 11.9. The bright star at the bottom is 109 Virgo at mag 3.7. Due to my silly indoor observatory I had to shoot these at low elevation to get them.

This is a crop of the full frame, which has a fair bit of coma. If I'm lucky the postman should deliver a nice new Baader MKIII coma corrector tomorrow.

6 inch F5 Newtonian, 71 x 30 second subs at ISO 3200, Pentax K-x on an HEQ5 Pro unguided.
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