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NGC 7497

NGC 7497 is a galaxy about 60 million light years away.
Its appearent size is 4.4X 1.7 arcminutes
It appears mixed with the Integrated Flux Nebula (IFN) in Pegasus.
The IFN, also known as Galactic Cirrus is dust far out of the plane of our galaxy caused to fluoresce by the ultraviolet light of super hot stars in our galaxy's disk.
The galaxy, is classed by the NGC project as an Sc galaxy.

Imaged with Boren-Simon 10" F/2.8 POWERNEWT Astrograph.
SBIG ST8300M camera with FW5 filterwheel and BAADER LRGB filters.
EQ6 PRO mount with PHD guiding

Luminance = 90 minutes (18X5min BIN 1)
Luminance 60 minutes (12X5min Bin 2)
RGB = 15 minutes each (BIN 2)
Total of 3 Hrs 15 minutes

Imaged from the NEGEV desert in ISRAEL


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