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(Arp 293)
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NGC 6286 & NGC 6285
(Arp 293)

NGC 6286, galaxy type Sb pec (lower center) & NGC 6285, galaxy type S0 pec (upper center) form Arp
293 in Draco. In the Arp atlas of peculiar galaxies, Arp 293 is in the class of Double Galaxies with
Wind Effects. The galaxy to the lower right is the flat galaxy UGC 10641 of type Scd. Taken between
July 6 and July 12, 2013. Imaged with CCD Lab’s Q285M camera and a Celestron EdgeHD 9.25 at f10, on
a Losmandy G11/Gemini mount. The L subframes were 12 minutes binned 1x1,while the RGB subframes were
4 minutes binned 2x2 resulting in the following total exposures L:R:G:B (min) = 408:64:64:64.
Captured with Nebulosity, calibrated, sigma combined in Iris with other processing using PixInsight
LE and Photoshop CS. North is up.


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