NGC 3504 + 3512

Posted by dcrowson
on Friday, April 17, 2020
NGC 3504 (UGC 6118, PGC 33371 and others) is the nice barred spiral at the bottom right. This galaxy is located approximately 85 million light-years away in Leo Minor.

NGC 3512 (UGC 6128, PGC 33432 and others) is the delicate spiral at the left located approximately 79 million-light years away.

I caught Asteroid 8360 1990 FD1 on a couple of nights. You can see a trail in color above and in monochrome below NGC 3504.

Luminance – 24x600s – 240 minutes – binned 1x1
RGB – 8x300s – 40 minutes each – binned 2x2

360 minutes total exposure – 6 hours

Imaged April 10th, 12th and 15th, 2020 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/49786240852/sizes/l/

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