Two Galaxies far far away

 Last few times I have ben concerned the mount was not accurately aligned, so the first thing done tonight was to check the polar alignment. I gave up using the polarscope and in the end used the Drift tool in APT. This seemed to work very well and thereafter  the     scope went to its target fairly accurately, with Sync being used to correct any slight errors.

I ended up looking at a couple of galaxies, one of which I imaged in Jan this year. Next job is to redo the flats, those dust bunnies are still there!

IC2166 in Lynx

IC2166 is a barred spiral galaxy about 120 million lights years away!

NGC 2403 in Camelopardalis

NGC 2403 (also known as Caldwell 7) is an intermediate spiral galaxy in the constellation Camelopardalis. It is an outlying member of the M81 Group, and is approximately 8 million light-years distant. It bears a similarity to M33, being about 50,000 light years in diameter and containing numerous star-forming H II regions