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IC5152

Image taken at Clayton Bay, South Australia

Equipment - 302mm GSO f4 Truss Newtonian, QSI WSG-8, Software Bisque PME

Guiding - SBIG STi

Software - MaximDL 6, Focusmax V4, SkyX, CCDautopilot 5

LRGB 3.4 hours

Processed in CCD stack and Photoshop CS6

Object - Located in the constellation of Indus at a distance of about 5.8 million light years.

It is an irregular galaxy and is close enough to easily resolve the stars within the galaxy.

It's apparent magnitude is 10.6