Cenozoic to Mesozoic Galaxies

/ 22 June 2015
Submitted by astroyyz@gmail.com on 22 June 2015

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Member Ian Wheelband on June 21, "I did some imaging from our Carr Astronomical Observatory (CAO) near Collingwood earlier this week, using my telescope.

 

Here is NGC5566 with some of its neighbours. Being about 65 million ly away, this light left when the dinosaurs were becoming extinct here.  The other two brighter neighbours are background at just over 80 million ly."

 

Credit:  Ian Wheelband, Ashburn, ON. Copyrighted   Telescope: 315mm F8 reflector.  Camera: SBIG STL-11000M 12 1/2" telescope, 10x600sec luminance, 6x300sec 2x2bin R, G,B.  Stacked using CCDStack2, and combined using Photoshop.   Ian used his own equipment for this image, however anyone can become a member and visit the CAO. http://rascto.ca/content/cao-bookings