Hickson 68

Posted by dcrowson
on Thursday, March 9, 2017

NGC 5350 (UGC 8810 and others) is the nice spiral to the left (east) of the bright star HD 121197.

NGC 5354 (UGC 8814 and others) a LINER AGN galaxy (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Low-ionization_nuclear_emission-line_region) below NGC 5350.

NGC 5353 (UGC 8813 and others) is the blazar (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blazar) elliptical interacting with NGC 5340.

NGC 5355 (UGC 8819 and others) is the odd spiral directly left (east) of the bright star.

NGC 5358 (UGC 8826 and others) is the galaxy to the left of NGC 5354/3.

All of these galaxies make up the Hickson Compact Group 68 and are approximately 100 million light-years away in Canes Venatici.

Luminance – 28x600s – 280 minutes – binned 1x1
RGB – 14:15:11x300s – 70:75:55 minutes each – binned 2x2

480 minutes total exposure – 8 hours

Imaged February 21st and 24th and March 1st and 6th, 2017 from Dark Sky New Mexico at Rancho Hidalgo (Animas, New Mexico) with a SBIG STF-8300M on an Astro-Tech AT12RCT at f/8 2432mm.

LRGB - https://www.flickr.com/photos/dcrowson/33302719856/sizes/l

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