NGC 1186

[dcrowson]

NGC 1186 (NGC 1174, UGC 2521, PGC 11617 and others) is a spiral galaxy located approximately 113 million light-years away in Perseus.

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

360 minutes total exposure – 6 hours

Imaged December 25th and 26th, 2022 and January 9th, 2023 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/ ... 7/sizes/l/



Dan

[Ylem]

Very nice Dan! Nice stars also.

[Makuser]

Hi Dan. A superb NGC 1186 in LRGB pallet image using the AT12RCT telescope at Dark Sky New Mexico, especially on the flickr site. Excellent contrast, and lots of details of NGC 1186 and the neighbors show up well too. Thanks for taking the time to put this fine work up on here for us to enjoy Dan.