Glad everyone's enjoying this 'secret' galaxy

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Steve, I stand corrected. You know, I thought it was suspect and that on some ground there might be this exception as nyte is pretty well seasoned. Ive misnumbered objects before so I figured... ok...lo and behold my fears were realized and there is validity to the "6" digit. wow.
Thanks for the input Steve - Pete

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Thanks also Steve for the clarification Megastar listed '5906' as 'non-existant' with an X but the chart cleared showed the 'Splinter' at this location but gave data under '5907' Here's another 70mm aperture shot from the same session

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Never seen this one. What can I expect to find in the eyepiece?

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Hi Olivier,

NGC 5907 ( link ) is a wonderful target for moderate aperture under a dark sky. In my old 10 inch, this needle-thin edge-on covered a 12' by 1' area. It's among the most elongated galaxies you'll ever see.

Bill in Flag

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Bill,

It s amazing how many people at a star party simply never heard of this object - and I mean some with big scopes.
At any rate through my 8 its this terrific span of light.

Its like a best kept secret in a way.

Pete

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That's a bit surprising, since NGC 5907 is on a number of different "best of" DSO lists:

http://seds.lpl.arizona.edu/Messier/xtra/similar/rasc-ngc.html

http://seds.lpl.arizona.edu/messier/xtra/similar/sac110bn.html

http://www.astronomyboy.com/saa/

http://www.astroleague.org/al/obsclubs/herschel/h400lstn.html

http://x.astrogeek.org/observations/list.php?list_id=14

http://pages.sbcglobal.net/raycash/dmcon.htm

http://www.1000plus.com/2000plus/ttpobn3.html

Dave Mitsky

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