NGC3893ONWEBFinalSaturation

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Comment by Tom Harrison on April 5, 2011 at 11:50pm

Thanks Louie, Marc, Mark, and Trevor for your comments. Trevor, I imaged this with my 12.5" RCOS Truss on an ME mount using an SBIG STL6303E camera, off-axis guided. LRGB:480:150:180:270.

Comment by Marc Basti on April 5, 2011 at 5:19pm

That looks like one tough get. Beauty, Marc

Comment by Trevor Woodrow on April 5, 2011 at 3:40pm

Tom, beautiful! Tell me what did you hit this with and how long?

Comment by Tom Harrison on April 5, 2011 at 2:37pm

NGC3893/3896 is an M51-type interacting galaxy pair seen in the direction of the Constellation Ursa Major around 50 Million Light-Years distant. NGC3893 is a spiral galaxy, type Sc and NGC3896 appears to be a lenticular galaxy. There is a bridge of gas, dust and stars faintly seen between the two The pair has been studied for dark matter interaction and rotation characteristics between the two.