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Faulkes Telescope Images

Deep Sky Objects - NGC 891

Here are some images which were captured using the Faulkes Telescope North at the Going Nova Science Festival
which was held at Horizon Scotland at the Business Park in Forres in the north of Scotland.

The event ran from Thursday 10th November 2005 until Saturday 12th November.
During the Festival, the telescope was under the control of members of  the north of Scotland's two mainland astronomy clubs.
SIGMA, Moray's Astronomy Club and  Highlands Astronomical Society.

Designation
Date and Time
Exposures
NGC 891, a magnitude 10 edge-on
spiral galaxy in Andromeda.
Nov 11 2005
10.16 to 10.20
RGB filters, 45 seconds

AT
Alan Tough
EW
Eric Walker.

Look closely at the faint orange object  nearest to the
top left corner. It isn't a star its another galaxy.
There is another between two brightest stars top-centre of the image.can you see them in the other images?
EWlum
Eric Walker

Eric has added a luminance layer to this image.


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