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NGC 5353 Group (or Hickson 68) is a group of galaxies consisting of NGC 5350, 5353, 5354, 5355, 5358.
- NGC 5350 is positioned on the top-left of the brightest "orange" star. It is a spiral galaxy with a magnitude of 12.4 (at photometric system: B) and surface brightness of 22.8 mag/arcsec^2. It's size, 2'24.60" on the longest and 2'04.38" on the shortest axis makes it a quite small target for amateur telescopes.
- NGC 5353, 5354, 5355, 5358 are all lenticular galaxies with a magnitude of 11.40, 12.30, 13.48 and 13.85 respectively.
Description Sources: Wikipedia, theskylive.com, in-the-sky.org
Equipment & Integration
Imaging telescope: TS Photon 8" F5 Newtonian reflector
Imaging camera: ZWO ASI 533MC-P
Mount: Skywatcher HEQ-5 Pro Go-To
Guiding telescope: TS 80/600 F7.5 Achromat
Guiding camera: ZWO ASI 120MC-S
Coma corrector: TS GPU Superflat
Extras: -
Software: Adobe Photoshop 2020, DeepSkyStacker, PHD Guiding, PixInsight
Frames: 78 x 300s GAIN 100 @ 0 degrees
Integration: 6 hours 30 minutes
Date captured: 14/08/2020
Location: Athens, Greece
Bortle Scale (?): 8