In the small constellation of Microscopium you can find this elliptical Galaxy (typed E-s0),sized 2,5′ × 1,9′ and 11,5mag bright.Its distance is about 110 Mio.lght-years.It was first obseved by John Herschel in 1834.
position:
RA.: 20h 48m 42,6s
Decl.: -37° 59′ 52″
image data:
LRGB image with L = 26x1200s, RGB = 7x1200s each,a total of 15.7 hours
80cm f/7 AstroOptik Keller corrected cassegrain FLI Proline 16803 Astrodon LRGB GenII filters
Prompt 7 CTIO/UNC Chile,remote controlled
image processing: Bernd Flach-Wilken
this is a 83%_FOV-look of the CCD-sensor to NGC6958.For full resolution click here
to see the shells even better and to identify all the other GXs,here is a reversed version: