This was the main one - NGC4725 and others plus LoTr5 in Coma Berenices

[Roberto]

Hello All

This was the main target I was working on since February.  I wish I had taken more luminance but the weather is not looking great for the rest of the week ahead so I decided to process and be done with it.

I had last imaged NGC4725 in 2005 and my current equipment is not really suited to small galaxies but I wanted to capture this beautiful spiral, its weird companion NGC4747 but most importantly, the faint planetary LoTr 5 - PK339+88.1.

For full details: https://www.astrobin.com/dcn0ps/C/?nc=user

Check the annotated version for the many background galaxies and other brighter objects.

https://www.astrobin.com/full/dcn0ps/B/

Roberto

[The Thing]

Very nice Roberto, and not a green galaxy in sight! The planetary nebula is lovely at full resolution and very unusual to see.

[Roberto]

Thank you! Didn't mean to put you off with the galaxy colours!
The planetary is quite large but very faint also and a nice contrast to the more distant objects.

Roberto

[MarkS]

I'm guessing LoTr5 is a pretty difficult object.

Mark

[Roberto]

Mark

It needed 3+ hours to show nicely in OIII.  There is some Ha signal "I've been told" but I didn't capture any as it only shows in the "wings" outside the main OIII surface.  It's a large nebula so it must be very difficult to observe and yes, not a common object. It's got an interesting variable as its centre:  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LoTr_5

Roberto

[NoelC]

Woweee - just look at those tiny galaxies trailing off into infinite...
Really exciting Roberto very well done, never seen this before.
Some odd artifacts around the stars which I suspect is due to the sharpening processes - obviously you are working with some very faint detail.  Very interesting subjects and loads of detail.

Noel