Galaxy
Splinter Galaxy (NGC5907)
In Draco (Dra) • Magnitude 10.4 • 11 arcminutes
Open the free AstroPlanner with Splinter Galaxy pre-selected, scored against your telescope, location, and the live cloud forecast.
A very thin edge-on spiral in Draco surrounded by faint tidal streams.
Splinter Galaxy at a glance
| Catalog IDs | N 5907 |
| Type | Galaxy |
| Constellation | Draco (Dra) |
| Right ascension | 15h 15m 54s |
| Declination | +56° 19' 44" |
| Apparent magnitude | 10.40 |
| Surface brightness | 23.6 mag/arcsec² |
| Angular size | 11.3 × 1.8 arcmin |
| Max altitude at 45°N | 79° |
| Best imaging months | Apr, May, Jun, Jul |
How to image Splinter Galaxy
Splinter Galaxy sits in the constellation Draco at right ascension 15h 15m 54s and declination +56° 19' 44". To frame and integrate it well, AstroPlanner will compute the optimal moonless window for tonight from your location, the field-of-view fit against your sensor and focal length, the suggested total integration time given your aperture and sky Bortle class, and a cloud-aware schedule that drops it from the plan if your nearest cloud forecast spike overlaps the best altitude window. As a galaxy, Splinter Galaxy needs the darkest skies you can find: surface brightness, not just apparent magnitude, drives whether it will lift out of the gradient.