NGC 6232 and friends in Draco

About the Object

NGC6232 and friends form  a nice ensemble of galaxies fairly high north (declination 70°) in the Draco constellation. NGC6232 is an actually fairly  interesting SBa galaxy with a nice bar and ring structure near its center, while NGC 6236 and NGC 6248 are fairly late barred spirals of type SBc and SBcd, respectively. Certainly they belong to the under-appreciated galaxies with only a very few shots on astrobin, and they NGC 6232 and NGC 6236 don't even have an english Wikipedia page - undeservingly so, I think.

Observation Notes

While the Moon was nearly full, I nevertheless gave it a shot owing to the fairly high latitude of my place and the low declination of the Moon - around -28, so it stayed in the city fog less than 10° over the horizon during the very short nights (only ~3h at nautical twilight). Certainly not ideal conditions, but actually not that bad compared to the local ideal given the light pollution (around 19.8).

And at the end, what counts is having fun getting the data ...

Data were taken on 2024 June 19, 23, 24, and 25

Technical Details

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