IC 5186

IC 5186


Combination of 10, 3 minute exposures unfiltered.
SBIG STL-1001E CCD. 20" f/6.8 Dall-Kirkham cassegrain telescope at prime focus.

IC 5186 is a small and moderately bright spiral galaxy the southern constellation of Grus. This was not actually my intended target att he time. I was meaning to image the nearby planetary nebula IC 5146, but was so brain-dead after a night observing that I typed in the wrong designation!