Stephan's Quintet and the Deer Lick Group

[JCJC]

Went for something different yesterday, Stephan's Quintet (bottom left) and NGC 7331 and others or collectively the Deer Lick Group (top right)

NGC 7331, sometimes called our galaxy's twin, is similar in size and structure to the Milky Way. It's at Mag +9.5, and 50 Mly away.

The galaxies in Stephan's Quintet range from a distance of 39Mly to 340Mly away and are Mag ~14.0 .

Captured most of the subs while playing badminton left the kit running, for an hour.

Funny moment of the night, when packing up at 1am, tried to lift the tripod from the ground, stuck fast frozen to the grass.

Hopefully add more to this soon to go a bit deeper and reduce the noise.

The negative shows up the dimmer galaxies well.

[Neil I]

Lovely image, and it fits nicely into the FOV of your setup. What sub length did you use for this?

Cheers

Neil

[ncjunk]

Good pic, I found Stephan's Quintet to be a pain as its a bit faint.

[JCJC]

Thanks for comments,

Stephan's Quintet is really faint, need longer subs this was 15 x 8mins subs.

Astrometry has anotated this version now Stephan's Quintet and the Deer Lick Group on Flickr - Photo Sharing! quite a few galaxies there.

Jordan

[Tim]

Excellent Jordan, nicely framed to get the two areas of interest.

[MartinB]

Keep going with this one Jordan cos it's looking good. They are dim targets there's more to come with some extra exposure time. As Tim says, you've done a cracking job with the framing

[JCJC]

Thanks Martin/Tim,

The framing was quite tricky I had a pretty small margin cos the flat field on the SCT isn't that big. Even with the f6.3 reducer/corrector.

Jordan.