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Galaxies cluster in Pegasus
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Galaxies cluster in Pegasus
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Stephan's Quintet of galaxies in the center left of the image is composed of NGC 7317, 7318A, 7318B, 7319, and 7320.
It's a well-known tight grouping in Pegasus near the bright spiral NGC 7331( center right). Most of Stephan's Quintet lies about 300 million light-years away towards the constellation of Pegasus. More informations are available at the wikipedia.org website |
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| Optics |
130 mm f/6.2 Astro-Physics EDF Refractor |
| Mount |
Astro-Physics AP 900GTO |
| Camera | SBIG ST-10XE. |
| Filters | SBIG CFW8A.With Astrodon LRGB Ha filters |
| Focuser | Robofocus focuser and Focusmax software |
| Dates | September 2006. |
| Location | Lentin Observatory |
| Exposure | LRGB = 57:63:57:72 minutes.. L bin1, RGB bin2. Scale 1.69^s/pixel |
| Acquisition | Image data acquired remotely using ACP4 Observatory control software., MaxIm DL 4 |
| Processing | MaxIm DL 4, Photoshop CS2, Registar, |
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