Faint Spiral Galaxy IC5332

[furgle (Adam)]

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

[strongmanmike (Michael)]

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

Mike

[rustigsmed (Russell)]

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

russ