• NGC 5560, an Interacting Galaxy in Virgo
    • NGC5566
    Annotated image
  • From left to right in the top left corner appear NGC 5574,
  • NGC 5576, and the nearly edge-on galaxy NGC 5577.
  • Arp 286 is a trio of interacting galaxies in Virgo;
  • NGC 5566, a barred spiral galaxy appears in the
  • center-right of the picture with NGC 5569 just
  • to its right and the gravitationally distorted
  • edge-on NGC 5560 just below.
  • Hover over the picture for an annotated version
  • Date:  18 and 20 June 2022
  • FOV:  cropped to 68' × 45'; the long axis of NGC 5566 is about 5.4'
  • Telescope:  Stellarvue SVX102T + SFFX-1 flattener (714mm, f/7)
  • Guiding:  ZWO ASI120MM mini mono guide camera,
  • Stellarvue F050G 50mm guide scope
  • Computer:  ASIair pro Raspberry Pi
  • Mount:  iOptron CEM40
  • Camera:  ZWO ASI071MC Pro Cooled (-10°C) Color CMOS with gain 240
  • Filter:  Baader Light Pollution Moonglow filter with IR cut
  • Stacking:  Fifty-six 240 second frames using Deep Sky Stacker
  • Total Time:  3 hours 44 minutes
  • Processing:  Pixinsight – SPPC, DBE, BlurXT, NoiseXT, DynCrop,
  • MStr, GHS, HST, PMath MStr + GHS + HST, HDR3,
  • Bkg, PMath max(HDR3,Bkg), Sat, Scale
  • Location:  Darling Hill Observatory near Vesper, NY