Celestial hemisphere:  Northern  ·  Constellation: Draco (Dra)  ·  Contains:  M 102  ·  NGC 5866  ·  NGC 5867  ·  Spindle galaxy
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NGC5866 or M102 SO-a (Dra) GX - 6.5'x9.9M - 1.25 hrs OSC - "The Spindle Galaxy maybe?", John Jennings
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NGC5866 or M102 SO-a (Dra) GX - 6.5'x9.9M - 1.25 hrs OSC - "The Spindle Galaxy maybe?"

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NGC5866 or M102 SO-a (Dra) GX - 6.5'x9.9M - 1.25 hrs OSC - "The Spindle Galaxy maybe?", John Jennings
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NGC5866 or M102 SO-a (Dra) GX - 6.5'x9.9M - 1.25 hrs OSC - "The Spindle Galaxy maybe?"

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Last night I took (50) 5 minute images with varying illumination from the moon with only a UV/IR filter on the QHY268C color camera. I stacked all subs first. Then I only stacked the last 15 subs before sunrise. The 50 stack looked good, but the 15 stack was just slightly better. Just goes to show what 22 MPSAS skies can for for deep space imaging.

The image scale is incorrectly reported because I scaled the jpg on output. It is 0.70 arc secs/pix for the AP155 and QHY268C.

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NGC5866 or M102 SO-a (Dra) GX - 6.5'x9.9M - 1.25 hrs OSC - "The Spindle Galaxy maybe?", John Jennings