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Old 05-05-2014, 09:04 PM
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Shiraz (Ray)
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ngc5101 and 5078

This is a remarkable group of galaxies, with the central barred region of NGC5101 looking almost like it was overlaid onto a quite different outer disk - and the interacting dusty NGC5078 and IC879. There is also an amazing variety of background fuzzies - a significant proportion of the background objects are non-stellar.

scaled version at http://www.astrobin.com/full/94516/0/

warts and all at native scale http://www.astrobin.com/full/94516/0/?real=&mod=

This is about as dim as I can get to from this site - really need darker sky . The outer disk of NGC5101 is only about 24mag/arcsec2, which is really pushing it when the sky is somewhere round mag20.

thanks for looking. regards Ray

Skywatcher 250f4 with RCC1
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data from 3 nights, lum 1x1 with 200 and 300sec subs, colour 2x2 with 200sec subs. lum FWHM was about 2.3 arcsec with median stacking
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