UGC 2495 + 2500

Posted by dcrowson
on Tuesday, January 21, 2020
UGC 2495 (PGC 11449) is a S0 spiral on the right side of the image. This galaxy appears to have a faint tidal tail looping around on the left (east) side.

UGC 2500 (PGC 11484) is a SBa spiral at the center of the image.

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

360 minutes total exposure – 6 hours

Imaged December 31st, 2019 and January 17th and 18th, 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/49419460488/sizes/l/

Thanks to astro99 for pointing this one out on CloudyNights - https://www.cloudynights.com/topic/688844-tidal-wave-near-pgc-11449.
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