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NGC 5907
Exposure Data
- Image Field of View: 21.74' x 14.50'
- Camera Field of View: 26.45' x 17.64'
- Scope: 11-inch Aplanatic Schmidt-Cassegrain
- Focal Length: 2,794 mm
- Focal Ratio: f/10
- Camera: Modified Canon T2i (550D)
- ISO: 1600
- Exposure: 7 x 480 seconds (56 minutes total)
- Filter: None
- SQM: 20.81
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NGC 5907 is known as the Splinter Galaxy, or Knife-Edge Galaxy. It is an edge-on Sc galaxy bisected by a dark lane.
It is located 40 million light-years away in the constellation of Draco.
Composed mostly of dwarf stars, NGC 5907 has very low metallicity and few giant stars.
It has an apparent magnitude of 10.7 and an apparent size of 12.6 x 1.4 arcminutes.
NGC 5907 was discovered in 1788 by William Herschel.
North is to the bottom in the above image.
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NGC 5907
- Catalogs: NGC 5907, UGC 9801, LEDA 54470
- Common Name: Splinter, Knife-Edge
- Object Type: SA(s)c? edge-on Galaxy
- Magnitude: 10.7v
- Size: 12.6' x 1.4'
- Constellation: Draco
- Image Field Centered At:
- RA: 15h 15m 53s
- Dec: +56° 19' 42"
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