NGC 6223

Posted by dcrowson
on Saturday, May 18, 2019

NGC 6223 (UGC 10527 and others) is galaxy located approximately 273 million light-years away in Draco. This area has a lot of IFN dust – the light clouds throughout the image.

Luminance – 34x600s – 340 minutes – binned 1x1
RGB – 10x300s – 50 minutes each – binned 2x2

490 minutes total exposure – 8 hours 10 minutes

Imaged April 26th, 27th, 29th and 30th and May 3rd, 2019 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/47878160811/sizes/l

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