NGC 7497

Posted by dcrowson
on Saturday, December 28, 2019
NGC 7497 (UGC 12392, PGC 70569 and others) is a somewhat edge on spiral galaxy located approximately 53 million light-years away in Pegasus. Our view is impacted by MBM 54, a cloud of IFN illuminated by our galaxy, approximately 900 light-years away. Several denser areas can also be found in the Planck Galactic Cold Clump (PGCC) catalog.

Luminance – 12x600s – 120 minutes – binned 1x1
RGB – 8x300s – 40 minutes each – binned 2x2

240 minutes total exposure – 4 hours

Imaged on September 28th, 2019 Dark Sky New Mexico at Rancho Hidalgo (Animas, New Mexico) with a SBIG ST-8300M on an Astro-Tech AT90EDT at f/6.7 603mm.

LRGB - https://www.flickr.com/photos/dcrowson/49290720567/sizes/l/
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