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NGC891 - The Outer Limits Galaxy

NGC891 - The Outer Limits Galaxy

Date: 11/10/2012
Target: NGC891 - The Outer Limits Galaxy
Telescope: Orion 8" f/4.9
Camera: ST-8300M
Filters: LRGB
Exposures: L:R:G:B=160:50:50:50 (L=1x1,RGB=2x2)
Framing: West is Up
Sensor Temp: -10C
Location: Mocksville, NC
Seeing: 3/5
Transparency: 4/5
Start Time: 7:30PM
End Time: 1:00AM
Captured with Sequence Generator Pro, stacked using DeepSkyStacker, processed in Photoshop.

From Wikipedia:

NGC 891 (also known as Caldwell 23) is an edge-on unbarred spiral galaxy about 30 million light-years away in the constellation Andromeda. It was discovered by William Herschel on October 6 1784. The galaxy is a member of the NGC 1023 group of galaxies in the Local Supercluster. It has an H II nucleus.[3]
The object is visible in small to moderate size telescopes as a faint elongated smear of light with a dust lane visible in larger apertures.
In 1999, the Hubble Space Telescope imaged NGC 891 in infrared.
In 2005, due to its attractiveness and scientific interest, NGC 891 was selected to be the first light image of the Large Binocular Telescope.[4] In 2012, it was again used as a first light image of the Discovery Channel Telescope with the Large Monolithic Imager.[5]
Supernova SN 1986J was discovered on August 21, 1986 at apparent magnitude 14.[6]