hickson68, in canes venatici

[tomzekine]

Hi everybody!!

From my Belgium, i present to you this picture of a hickson group. The number 68, are NGC 5350, 5353, 5354, 5355 et 5358 in canes venatici. Magnitude 10.9 for ngc 5353 to 14.6 for ngc 5358.

C8 telescope on vixen sp-dx, commanded by boxdoerfer mts3-sdi.
DSLR eos-450d
27x300" for 2h15 of exposure
guided by lodestar on radial guider by phd guiding.

traitement by iris and the gimp2

http://img707.imageshack.us/img707/4...ckson68txt.jpg

A crop of hickson 68, whith a far away () cluster of galaxy near.

http://img204.imageshack.us/img204/9015/crophk68.jpg

It's an old picture from last year, i have take it in april 2010.
Now i have a losmandy G11 and a sigma ccd with kaf1603me. I will send new picture.
Good sky, and excuse for my not very good english!!

Tom

[astroron (Ron)]

Thanks for shareing Tom,keep em coming
Stay on here long and we will have you speaking Aussie English
Cheers