Hickson 14, 15, 16

[Mike JW]

I have been poking about in Cetus of late. Not an easy constellation for us GB but some very worthwhile targets. Most of the time I am having to look through light pollution and the inevitable humid GB skies. However here a few offerings.

C11 at f6.3 with an Ultrastar. All cropped images and cleaned up in photoshop. Getting a reasonable shot has been tough.  Generally I use 10 sec subs and stack  until I get something that is OK but not normally more than 20 in the stack. 

Mike

Hickson 16                                                                                    

A collection of brighter galaxies.                                                  

 

HCG 16a 16b 16c 16d

"Name" NGC 835 NGC 833 NGC 838 NGC 839

Type SAB pec Sa pec SA0a pec S pec

Mag. 13.1 13.5 13.5 14.2

 

 

Hickson 14

An almost straight line of faint galaxies

 

HCG 14a 14b 14c 14d

"Name" PGC 7557 PGC 7553 PGC 7550 PGC 7546

Type SAb pec SA0 pec Sbc Sd

Mag. 14.9 15.3 17.7 17.0

 

 

Hickson 15

Six galaxies in this group.

 

HCG 15a 15b 15c 15d 15e 15f

"Name" PGC 8128 PGC 8110 PGC 8117 PGC 8114 PGC 8096 PGC 8116

Type S0 E/S0 E/S0 E/S0 S0 Sbc

Mag. 14.7 15.8 14.6 15.3 15.8 16.7

 

[elpajare]

Good job, thanks for sharing.

Some of the galaxies have a very difficult magnitude to capture and you have achieved it brilliantly

[Mike JW]

Thanks Elpajare. Wish  I lived further south to get a good look at these DSOs. Mike

[Martin Meredith]

Very nice shots Mike and great information. I am further south and checking my images of these objects I don't think I've managed to pull out anything extra...

Martin

[Bill S]

A fine collection of galaxies you've got there.

[RobertI]

Some very interesting galaxy groups there, well chosen and well captured.