After 10 months of almost exclusively using the 4deg X 4deg wide field FSQ106EDX4-PL16803 combo, I felt like doing some high resolution imaging again
...so I changed over to the AG12 this week (Just a 10sec USB cable switch around and a couple of different boxes ticked in the camera control software..easy!) and hit some galaxies
NGC 7125 and 7126 in Indus are 160 Million light years away, so are fairly faint (especially NGC 7126 - the upper galaxy which has a low surface brightness) and both quite small on the sky too at under 3 arc min in size each (a far cry from what I have been hitting with the FSQ-FLI setup in recent times
). There aren't many shots of this pair on the net which is surprising really, as they do make for a nice photogenic pair of spiral galaxies. I like the faint sweeping outer arms of NGC 7126, they remind me of NGC 1300 in Eridanus or NGC 1566 The Spanish Dancer galaxy in Dorado. There are plenty of back ground and much more distant galaxies sprinkled throughout the field too.
Conditions weren't too bad either and it was fun to be back in the higher resolution seat again...hope you enjoy the view
NGC 7125 / 7126 in Indus (full frame view)
Cheers
Mike