NGC 5907

Date: 5/2007+5/2008 - seeing 6-8/10; transp. 5-8/10

Scope: 9" TMB Apo f/9

CCD: SXV H16 - 4 hours - luminance; 1x1 bin no darks; 4.5 hours R,G,B 2x2 bin. 6 darks for 2x2bin.

Software: AstroArt4 image acqu. guiding. Maxim DL preprocessing; CCD sharp, Registax, CCD stack.

Processing: postprocess. PS CS2 and Pix InSight LE


 

NGC 5907 is an edge on galaxy, that is located in the constellation Draco. It appears at a size of 11.8 arc minutes by 1.3 arc minute and shines at 11m1, not being perfectly bright. Discovered on the 5th of May 1788 by W. Herschel, the galaxy is now 41 Mio LY away and shines almost 2 times brigther than our milky-way, if it was in the same distance from earth, which equals about 42 Bio suns.

 

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