NGC5907 Edge-On Galaxy

DETAILS: Imaged 6-21-03 with the LX200 10" and ST-10XME at f11.6, guided by the AO-7. LRGB: 120:30:30:40. Aligned with RegiStar, with subframes of each color combined in MaxIm DL with Sigma Plug-In. Individual color frames combined with luminance in Photoshop, with additional processing in Photoshop and Neat Image.

COMMENTARY: NGC5907 is an almost edge-on galaxy, inclined only about 7 degrees to our line of sight, in the Constellation Draco. It has an extremely flat disc, very enlongated, and produced Supernova 1940A, seen on February 16, 1940. A fairly prominent dust lane shows up in long exposure photographs of this beautiful galaxy over 40 million light-years distant.