NGC 7497

NGC 7497 (UGC 12392, PGC 70569 and others) is a somewhat edge on spiral galaxy located approximately 53 million light-years away in Pegasus. Our view is impacted by MBM 54, a cloud of IFN illuminated by our galaxy, approximately 900 light-years away. Several denser areas can also be found in the Planck Galactic Cold Clump (PGCC) catalog.

Luminance – 32x300s – 160 minutes – binned 2x2

RGB – 32:35:32x300s – 160:175:160 minutes each – binned 2x2

655 minutes total exposure – 10 hours 55 minutes

Imaged July 13th through the 17th, 2023 at the El Sauce Observatory (Rio Hurtado, Chile) with a QHY 600M on a PlaneWave CDK24 at f/6.5 3974 mm.

These are Telescope Live (https://telescope.live/) “One-Click Observations.”

LRGB - https://www.flickr.com/photos/dcrowson/53052479616/sizes/l/