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Arp 162

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Arp 162 (NGC 3414, UGC 5959 and others), near the bottom center, is a S0pec lenticular galaxy located approximately 81.5 million light-years away in Leo Minor. Arp has this on in his ‘diffuse counter-tails’ class.

NGC 3418 (UGC 5963, PGC 32549 and others), above and to the left (east) of Arp 162, is a barred spiral with large, faint arms located approximately 67 million light-years away.

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

360 minutes total exposure – 6 hours

Imaged over five nights in May, 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.

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Great pic! Are the prices below accurate? I'm not judging, just curious if it's really a grand to buy in. Thanks!

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I might have to go to Albuquerque in a month or so - maybe I could check out the NM skies in person. :think:
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I'm not sure on the current costs. I'm in a building with a couple other people (three piers) and our split costs aren't that much. Most of these kinds of places are around $500 a month and they go up from there. DSNM's infrastructure is good with fiber internet, on site help, etc.

You'll be near dark skies for sure. If you head south, the area out by the VLA is very dark (I setup at a corner before turning towards the VLA enterance). If you continue west past it and then south on 180, the Cosmic Campground is an amazingly dark place. Think horizon to horizon milky way. Darkest place I've been. These places sure do beat the green zone skies that are a couple hours of out downtown Saint Louis.

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