Stephan's Quintet image

Stephan's Quintet

Contains: Deep sky object
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Description

Stephan's Quintet galaxy group, about 290 million ly distant. Located visually in Pegasus, discovered by Edouard Stephan in 1877 at Marseille Observatory. Starmaster hybrid truss Dobsonian scope with 14.5" f4.3 Zambuto mirror to Antares 1/20 wave secondary to Baader MPCC to ZWO ASI294MC pro camera cooled to 5-deg C. This is a livestack using SharpCap to produce the image from 176 frames, 1804 sec total, minor adjustments of image in Digital Photo Professional. Acquired at NAA Dark Sky site.

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  • Ron Masters
  • Ron Masters
  • November 8, 2015