Arp 20

Posted by dcrowson
on Sunday, December 9, 2018

Arp 20 (UGC 3014, PGC 14892 and others) appears to be an odd spiral or a couple interacting located in Taurus. This one is part of Arp’s Spiral Galaxies – Three Arms class. The other larger galaxies appear to be uncatalogued.

Luminance – 24x600s – 240 minutes – binned 1x1
RGB – 12x300s – 60 minutes each – binned 2x2

420 minutes total exposure – 7 hours

Imaged December 15th, 2017 and November 10th, 13th and December 8th, 2018 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/45523126944/sizes/l

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