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Community photo entitled C5 Spiral Galaxy in Camelopardalis 7-11 million ly away, very dim by Andy Dungan on 11/20/2025 at Near Cotopaxi, Colorado USA

C5 Spiral Galaxy in Camelopardalis 7-11 million ly away, very dim

On 11/20/2025 01:00 am by Andy Dungan | Website | Near Cotopaxi, Colorado USA

This is really sort of the first of the winter galaxies. Bodes/Cigar comes next in a month or two and then come lots of galaxies in the vicinity of the Big Dipper. The challenge for taking pics of this galaxy is how dim it is compare to many others of its size. Evidently there is a substantial amount of dust someplace in between here and the 7-10 million ly to the galaxy. As I said above more exposure and using PI made a substantial difference in the quality of the pic. Ya, progress!!

ASI585MC Pro g200, AskarV@600f7.5, 36 15min pics (9.75 hours) exposure, +darks/biases/flats
AM5/ASIair+, EAF, Askar OAG with ASI174mini for guiding

PixInsight 100%.

Compared to the pic I took a year ago this pic is so much better. The first reason was taking 15 min exposures as opposed to 10 min. The second reason was PI. I was able to develop much finer details.