NGC 5905 and NGC 5908
Awarded APOD GrAG Astronomical Phpoograph Of The Day 3 Augist 2021 apod.grag.org/2021/08/03/ngc-5905-and-ngc-5908/

NGC 5905 and NGC 5908 are two beautiful spiral galaxies in the constellation Draco.  They are 140 million light years from Earth, and are about 500,000 light years apart. NGC 5905 is face-on and clearly shows its spiral structure. NGC 5908 is viewed edge-on, and so the spiral structure is hidden, and instead we see a dark band of obscuring dust.
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Nomenclature: NGC 5905, NGC 5908
Right Ascension: 15:16:05.0
Declination: +55:27:48.00

EQUIPMENT USED
APM TMB LZOS 152 refractor
10Micron GM2000 HPS mount
QSI6120 CCD camera
Astrodon filters
IMAGE CAPTURE
Luminance: 134x300 bin 1x1
Red: 16x300 bin 1x1
Green: 16x300 bin 1x1
Blue: 17x300 bin 1x1
Total integration: 15.3 hours
Pixel scale: 0.531 arcsec/pixel
Field radius: 0.357 degrees
Capture dates: 1-7 June 2021
Capture location:  Fregenal de la Sierra, Spain
IMAGE PROCESSING
Pre-processing: CCDStack2
Post-processing: Photoshop CS2