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.

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.

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.