NGC7497 Galaxy
| Description |
NGC 7497 is an edge-on barred spiral galaxy in the constellation Pegasus, about 60 million light-years away, notable for its warped disk, active star formation, and for appearing embedded in our own Milky Way’s faint, dusty interstellar clouds, known as Integrated Flux Nebulae (IFN) like MBM 54. This foreground nebula makes imaging NGC 7497 a challenge, but reveals its spiral structure, dust lanes, and blue star clusters against the ghostly, Milky Way-lit dust. |
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| Data/Processing Attribution |
This is my data and processing. |
| Distances/Size |
Distance to the object: 60 million light-years. |
| Equipment |
Mount-PlaneWave L-350; Scope-PlaneWave CDK14″, 356 mm aperture, 2563 mm focal length; Camera-Moravian C3-61000, 0.30 arcsec/pixel. |
| Observatory |
The image was captured at the Prairie Skies Astro remote observatory. |
| Exposure |
Total exposure was 24 hours and 50 minutes: L-83X300 6 hours 55 minutes R-65X300 5 hours 25 minutes G-70X300= 5 hours 50 minutes B-77X300= 6 hours 25 minutes
Total—28 hours, 55 minutes Processing is done in PixInsight, Photoshop, and Lightroom Classic |