Several weeks back, I received an e-mail inviting me to join a small astronomy club in Lake Riverside Estates. I was happy to accept and we have already had productive meetings. Without permission of the members, none will be mentioned here, but we are a group of five, all interested in astronomy in Lake Riverside.

We’ve had visits to two of our observatories and had some excellent solar observing. This last Saturday night we did a little imaging. With some clouds we more exercised the equipment than imaging. But it was a good time.

After the visit, I did get some good data on NGC 7640, a spiral galaxy in Andromeda. Here is a quick processing of the 80 minutes of luminance I gathered that night.

NGC 7640, Spiral Galaxy in Andromeda