SUNSET: 
0
Photographer:
Rod Pommier
Location of Photo:
pommier Observatory, Portland, OR, USA
Date/Time of photo:
2024-06-07 through 2024-06-09
Equipment:
PlaneWave CDK17 on L500 mount, SBIG STL 11000 CCD camera with Baader Planetarium L, R, G, and B filters.
Description:
NGC 5907 is a spiral galaxy in Draco seen nearly edge-on and almost perfectly bisected by its dust lane. It is likely Hubble Class Sc with the central bulge and nucleus not much thicker than the galaxy's disk. Because of this distinctive profile, NGC 5907 is known as the Needle Galaxy or Splinter Galaxy, which lies 50 million light-years from Earth. The small galaxy to its upper right is PGC 54419 and the galaxy in the upper right corner is PGC 2538922. Exposures: L:R:G:B = 165:60:60:60 minutes =1 hour 5 hours, 45 minutes total exposure, completely unguided.
