SUNSET: 
0
Photographer:
KuriousGeorge
Location of Photo:
Julian, CA
Date/Time of photo:
May 23-25,27 2025
Equipment:
Planewave CDK24
Description:
May and June are some of the darkest nights in Julian (4,200') with skies 21.5+ due to the coastal marine layer blanketing the lower city lights. From what I can find, this may be one of the deepest images of NGC 5921 to date. "NGC 5921 lies approximately 80 million light-years from Earth, and much like our own galaxy, the Milky Way, contains a prominent bar. Roughly half of all spiral galaxies are thought to contain bars, and these bars affect their parent galaxies by fuelling star formation and affecting the motion of stars and interstellar gas. Appropriately, given NGC 5921’s serpentine spiral arms, this galaxy resides in the constellation Serpens in the northern celestial hemisphere. Serpens is the only one of the 88 modern constellations to consist of two unconnected regions
