Date Posted: 3/16/2026
Date Taken: 4/21/2015, 4/24/2015, 5/13/2015
Scope: Planewave CDK 12.5 f/8, 2541mm
Camera: SBIG STL-11000 with Astrodon Tru-Balance E-Series Gen2 filters
Temp: -15C
Mount: Losmandy Titan
Guiding: SSAG, Celestron 80mm guide scope, 600mm.
Exposure: LRGB 250:115:120:125, total 10 hrs, 10 min. (L) (N)x5m, binned 1x1. RGB each (N)x5m, binned 2x2

Calibrated and Stacked with CCDStack2. Processed with CS4.

NGC 6384 is an intermediate-class barred spiral galaxy, located about 77 million light years away in Ophiuchus. At an estimated 130,000-150,000 light years in size, it is slightly larger than our Milky Way. Although it boasts a relatively bright magnitude of 10.4, most of that brightness is concentrated in the bar and surrounding inner ring. The spiral arms are quite faint; I used a lot of Photoshop tricks to bring them out in this image.

This is a re-process of an image originally taken in 2015, largely to reduce star bloat and brighten the outer spiral arms.