Very faint Draco Galaxy

UGC10822 a dwarf galaxy in Draco - an extremely faint close-by galaxy, neighbor of the Milky Way. A total of 4.8 hours of images stacked (29 x 10 min), just begins to show this unusual galaxy. The small background galaxies range between mag 15 and mag 18, so you can see how faint this object is. I don't believe it has been seen visually.

305F3.8 R-H astrograph, QSI683 camera.

Rolando

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Roland Christen said:

UGC10822 a dwarf galaxy in Draco - an extremely faint close-by galaxy, neighbor of the Milky Way. A total of 4.8 hours of images stacked (29 x 10 min), just begins to show this unusual galaxy. The small background galaxies range between mag 15 and mag 18, so you can see how faint this object is. I don't believe it has been seen visually.

305F3.8 R-H astrograph, QSI683 camera.

Rolando

Man, talk about low surface brightness! Nice catch. Google this fascinating object if you don't know about it. Very important Astrophysical object.

That image is like my black polo shirt whenever I go out, it's full of little faint fuzzies. They're different in the sense that I like to see them on one, but not the other.
That was a good target for your R-H.
You bemoan your light pollution, Roland, but it's hard to believe you when you keep producing deep images like that.
My regards,

dan kowall
photonhunter.com

That is one difficult target to be sure! Looks good.