AP#66 : NGC 5907
Name: The "Splinter" galaxy
Constellation:Draco
Instrument: 6-inch F5 reflector with sky watcher coma corrector and a Nikon D3300.
Exposure time: A stack of 16 five-minute exposures at ISO 800.
Star Chart from Michael Vlasov's Deep sky hunter star atlas available on line https://www.deepskywatch.com/deep-sky-hunter-atlas.html
Magnitude: 11.1
Angular size: 12.7' X 1.4'
NGC 5907 is a large edge-on galaxy found in Draco. The galaxy is unique in that it contains mostly dwarf stars. There is a faint stellar stream ring structure that surrounds the galaxy but I did not capture in this image. This featuer is a challenge for amateur astronomers.
