NGC891

2013-10-04 0 comment(s)

We went out for some astrophotography straight after work for this night even though the weather looked terrible. It was very cloudy and windy (about 10m/s winds!) the whole night, but we managed to get some shots thru the clouds anyway! This shot of NGC891 is one of the best from this night because it's a really nice edge-on galaxy.

A galaxy is a massive, gravitationally bound system consisting of stars, stellar remnants, an interstellar medium of gas and dust, and dark matter. Examples of galaxies range from dwarfs with as few as ten million stars to giants with one hundred trillion stars, each orbiting their galaxy's own center of mass. ― source and more information wikipedia

Date: 2013-10-04
Location: Ekerö, Sweden
Temperature: 8 °C
Telescope: Skywatcher Equinox 80 APO
Camera: Canon 500D
ISO: 1600
Mount: Meade fork-mount
Exposure time: 69 X 45 sec
Reducer/flattener: William-Optics 0.8X reducer/flattener (P-FLAT-F6)
Other info: Autoguided with 50mm scope and QHY5-II ontop of a Meade 12inch LX200 GPS.
Processing: Stacked and darks-subtracted in DeepSkyStacker. Processed in Photoshop CS6.