astroenthusiast 279 Posted May 22, 2021 This wide field view of the Splinter galaxy was captured on 05/16/2021 at 12:32 am ET, using a total exposure time of 88 minutes. The Splinter galaxy is in the constellation Draco and lies at 40 million light years from Earth. The imaging train used, was an Explore Scientific ED 102mm APO Triplet Air spaced Refractor at F/7 and a Optolong L-Pro LP -filter was used, along with a ZWO ASI2600 MC Pro CMOS color camera. If you notice to the far upper left the galaxy NGC 5908 and to the lower left the galaxy NGC 5905. The galaxy NGC 5879 is barely visible (a blur) to the far lower left. 1 Link to comment
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