NGC 5907 aka the Knife Edge or Splinter galaxy, is an edge on spiral galaxy in Draco. At an apparent magnitude of 11.1, it's not the easiest of objects to image, and last night was particularly challenging. The clouds broke for a couple of hours and I was able to capture 100 minutes of 20 second exposures. Conditions were far from ideal. Most of the time, I was imaging through thin cloud under Bortle 9 conditions, but the Seestar only failed to stak about 5 frames in the whole run. Contrast was low on the Seestar image, but I was able to boost it with Siril and Affinity Photo. The result isn't terrible. It;s rather noisy, but a hint of detail in the dark dust lanes can be seen.
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