I'm Probably Closing Out The Year A Little Early

After much traveling and some surgery, I may not have much time or energy to do much more imaging. I did get some done the night of December 10^th. As noted earlier, I'm trying to image the Herschel objects on the Herschel 400 list. What I'm finding is that some of the objects are turning out to be things I will want to come back to when I get the time. One such object was found Sunday, NGC891, a cool looking galaxy in the constellation of Andromeda. Of course, Andromeda also has many other galaxies, such as the huge M31 galaxy. Mostly, it's just I didn't know this one was here, and it's looks like a nice one to take a longer look at. In this “run” of 6 images, 3 of the images are stacks of 1 minute, the other images are only 10 seconds, but stacks of 5 images. The 10 second images do not contain any galaxies. I hope to be able to give more information on these objects at a later time.

Lets start with the 1 minute images.

NGC205, aka M110, Elliptical galaxy, Stack of 3 1 min frames F6.3, 8" LX200GPS

NGC404 lenticular galaxy. Stack of 3 1 min frames. I need to find out about the nebulosity around the bright star.

NGC891 This is the one I'm coming back to. Obviously a galaxy with a dark dust lane thru the center.

And now the 10 second images.

NGC752 Open cluster.

NGC7662 a planetary nebula aka at the Blue Snowball Nebula

NGC7686 another open cluster.