| Date/Place | 2009-05-25 at Farm Hakos, Namibia | |
| Scope | Takahashi FSQ85ED | |
| Camera | Modified 450D | |
| Integration | Average of 2x600 seconds at ISO 800. Preprocessed with IRIS, stretch with PICTools, final adjustments with PixInsight LE. | |
| Comment | I didn't want to spend too much time on it as I already had other targets to shoot in my mind. After stacking it, however, I though it was worth putting it in the gallery as the definition of the dust lanes of the galaxy and the small galaxies around are quite a nice look. |
