NGC 5717


Combination of 10, 3 minute images unfiltered.
SBIG ST9XE CCD. 12" f/10 schmidt-cassegrain telescope and an f/6.3 focal reducer.

NGC 5717 is a small and rather faint spiral galaxy in Bootes. The larger edge-on spiral galaxy to the right is NGC 5714, while the smaller NGC 5722 is to the right of NGC 5717. Several fainter galaxies are also visible in the image.