NGC6239

Rancho Del Sol Observatory · Camino, California

NGC6239 by Ken Crawford

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Image Equipment Details

  • RCOS 20" carbon truss - 100mm FFC
  • Paramount ME
  • Apogee Alta u9000
  • SBIG ST402 Guider
  • Astrodon MegaMoag
  • Astrodon 50mm Sq Filters

Exposure Details

  • Clear/ Lum = 440 minutes
  • Red = 100 minutes
  • Green = 80 minutes
  • Blue = 80 minutes
  • Ha = 0 minutes
  • OIII = 0 minutes
  • SII = 0 minutes

Software Used

  • MaxDL 5
  • CCDAutopilot 5
  • CCDStack2
  • Photoshop CS5

About this image


NGC6239 in Hercules is a distorted spiral only 2.4 x 1.1 arc/minutes in size. It shows strong evidence of mergers with minor satellite galaxies with possible spike and loop type star streams. The smaller galaxy to the right is PGC 2204813 which also shows amazing interaction features.

This image has been inverted and contrast enhanced to help display the possible star streams and other interaction features.

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