IC 5021

[dcrowson]

IC 5201 (ESO 289-18, PGC 68618 and others) is a barred spiral galaxy located approximately 27.5 million light-years away in Grus.

The two bright stars are doubles:

pi.02 Gru (HIP 110506 and others) – at the left
pi.01 Gru (HIP 110478 and others) – to the right of pi.02 Gru

Luminance – 20x120s – 40 minutes – binned 2x2
RGB – 20:20:19x120s – 40:40:38 minutes each – binned 2x2

158 minutes total exposure – 2 hours 38 minutes

Imaged June 28th and 29th, 2023 at the El Sauce Observatory (Rio Hurtado, Chile) with a QHY 600M on a PlaneWave CDK24 at f/6.5 3974 mm.

These are Telescope Live (https://telescope.live/) “One-Click Observations.”

LRGB - https://www.flickr.com/photos/dcrowson/ ... 6/sizes/l/



Dan

[StarHugger]

Nice imaging, Thanks!

[Caddman]

Nice capture,

[JSBach1801]

Don't know what it is, but I love a good diffraction spike. Great capture!