NGC5963 NGC5965

Rancho Del Sol Observatory · Camino, California

NGC5963 NGC5965 by Ken Crawford

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Image Equipment Details

  • RCOS 20" carbon truss - 100mm FFC
  • Paramount ME
  • Apogee Alta u16m
  • SBIG ST402 Guider
  • Astrodon MegaMoag
  • Astrodon 50mm Sq Filters

Exposure Details

  • Clear/ Lum = 520 minutes
  • Red = 210 minutes
  • Green = 210 minutes
  • Blue = 210 minutes
  • Ha 5nm = 0 minutes
  • OIII 3nm. = 0 minutes
  • SII 5nm = 0 minutes

Software Used

  • MaxDL 5
  • CCDAutopilot 4
  • CCDStack2
  • Photoshop CC & PIxInsight

About this image


NGC5963 and NGC5965 are found in Draco and are a very different distances. NGC5963 is around 40 million light-years away while the almost edge on NGC5965 is 150 millions light-years away.

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I used old color data from a 6303E chip and combined it with lumiance from an Alta 16803.

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