Ballard Loc: Grass Valley, California

I just finished stacking the images I took of the Little Sombrero Galaxy (NGC 7814). It gets its name since it resembles M104 the Sombrero Galaxy but is farther away and although physically about the same size it appears smaller and dimmer (Magnitude 10.8). It sets around 40 million light years away and can be found in the constellation of Pegasus. This image catches a plethora of more distance galaxies. The two brightest are IC 5381 (Magnitude 14.1)to the right of the little Sombrero and PGC 259 (Magnitude 15.7) below it. Note: IC 5381 is ~550 Million Light years away (I don't have a distance on PGC 259). None of the other more distance galaxies are in the charts I have.


All questions comments and suggestions are welcome.

For this interested.
I posted an image of the Sombrero Galaxy taken with a DSLR last year at
https://www.uglyhedgehog.com/t-702169-1.html

This images was taken with a Meade LX200 16 inch telescope at a focal length of 4096mm. The camera used was an ASI 6200mm pro monochrome cooled camera. The images were taken with the gain set to 100, and one night it was cooler so some of the images were taken at -20C, the other two nights were in the low 70's so the images were taken at -12C.

The follow exposures and filters were used. (The odd number of exposures is due to some being tossed due to atmospheric turbulence.)
Luminance - 153 exposures at 3 minutes each
Red - 27 exposures at 5 minutes each
Green - 23 exposures at 5 minutes each
Blue - 27 exposures at 5 minutes each

The images were calibrated (using Bias, Dark and Flat frames), aligned (registered) and stacked using Pixinsight.

The Little Sombrero Galaxy (NGC 5814)

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Architect1776 Loc: In my mind

jlg1000 Loc: Uruguay / South America

Amazing !!!
Great work and outstanding result.

PoppieJ Loc: North Georgia

very nice

nimbushopper Loc: Tampa, FL

Tomfl101 Loc: Mount Airy, MD

Totally cool!

Bigmike1 Loc: I am from Gaffney, S.C. but live in Utah.

That's a great image. There is no end to the universe and it is constantly expanding. You must spend a lot of time at night taking pictures instead of sleeping.

lamiaceae Loc: San Luis Obispo County, CA

Amazing. And a huge amount of effort and skill!

Retired CPO Loc: Travel full time in an RV

Very, very nice!

BigDaddy Loc: Pittsburgh, PA

Your knowledge and skill (and patience) sure paid off. That's an outstanding one.

NMGal Loc: NE NM

Wonderful!

Ballard Loc: Grass Valley, California

Hi Architect1776
Thanks for viewing the Little Sombrero Galaxy and for the smiley face.

Ballard Loc: Grass Valley, California

Hi jlg1000
Thanks for viewing the Little Sombrero Galaxy and for the comment.

Ballard Loc: Grass Valley, California

Hi PoppieJ
Thanks for checking out the images of the Little Sombrero Galaxy and for the comment.

Ballard Loc: Grass Valley, California

Hi nimbushopper
Thanks for viewing the photo of the Little Sombrero Galaxy and for the Thumbs up.