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Draco Triplet

This triplet of galaxies is called the Draco Group or Draco Triplet. They are located in the northern constellation of Draco. From the left to right are a face-on spiral galaxy NGC 5985, elliptical galaxy NGC 5982 and edge-on spiral NGC 5981. These galaxies do all lie roughly 100 million light-years from our planet Earth. Further on the right there is a lenticular galaxy, NGC 5976.

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:
300s x 201 GAIN 100 @ 0 degrees
120s x 173 GAIN 100 @ 0 degrees
Integration: 25 hours 21 minutes
Date captured: 25/08/2020
Location: Athens, Greece
Bortle Scale (?): 8