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NGC 488

NGC 488

  • Constellation: Pisces
  • Right Ascension: 01h 21m 46.8s
  • Declination: +15° 24′ 19″
  • Distance: 90 million ly

NGC 488 a nearly face on spirally spiral galaxy with it's tightly wound arms located 90 million light years away in Pisces. Estimated size of the diameter of the galaxy is 170,000 light years across. Many background galaxies are also visible. The galaxy itself is rather isolated other than a few dwarf galaxies around it.

Details
Category: Galaxies
Published: 01 January 2021
  • Telescope: Explore Scientific 127 Refractor
  • Camera: ZWO 1600 MM
NGC 278

NGC 278

  • Constellation: Cassiopeia
  • Right Ascension: 00h 52m 04.3s
  • Declination: +47° 33′ 02″
  • Distance: 39 million ly

Compact isolated face on spiral galaxy located in Cassiopeia. The galaxy is undergoing a burst of star formation in an inner ring but it does not extend out to the outer parts of the galaxy. It is thought to have been caused by a recent merger with a smaller galaxy.

Details
Category: Galaxies
Published: 26 November 2020
  • Telescope: Explore Scientific 127 Refractor
  • Camera: ZWO 1600 MM
NGC 7217

NGC 7217

  • Constellation: Pegasus
  • Right Ascension: 22h 07m 52.4s
  • Declination: +31° 21′ 33″
  • Distance: 50 million ly

NGC 7217 a gas poor spiral galaxy located in Pegasus 50 million light years away. Three ring like structures where most of the star formations is occurring. Possibly a result of a past galaxy merger as some stars are moving in opposite directions.

Details
Category: Galaxies
Published: 11 November 2020
  • Telescope: Explore Scientific 127 Refractor
  • Camera: ZWO 1600 MM
M 33

Messier 33 (2020)

  • Constellation: Triangulum
  • Right Ascension: 01h 34m 33.2s
  • Declination: +30° 47′ 06″
  • Distance: 2.7 million ly

Messier 33 or the Triangulum Galaxy located conveniently in the constellation of Triangulum is a member of our local group of galaxies. The third biggest of a group that includes the Milky Way and the Andromeda Galaxies. A spiral galaxy that is approximately 2.7 million light years away. Smaller than the Milky Way, it contains some 40 billion stars compared to the 400 billion plus stars of the Milky Way galaxy.

Numerous HII regions can be seen located in the galaxy as pinkish red sections, the largest is NGC 604 which is amoung the largest HII regions in our local group. It would be over 40 times the size or our Orion Nebula.

Details
Category: Galaxies
Published: 27 October 2020
  • Messier Object
  • Telescope: Explore Scientific 127 Refractor
  • Camera: ZWO 1600 MM
NGC 891

NGC 891 (2020)

  • Constellation: Andromeda
  • Right Ascension: 02h 22m 33.4s
  • Declination: +42° 20′ 57″
  • Distance: 27 million ly

NGC 891 galaxy is located in Andromeda. Similar in size and shape to our galaxy, it's what ours would look like viewed edge on. Fingers of dust and gas are seen extending above and below the galaxies disk, possibly cause by past supernovas expelling gas and dust.

Details
Category: Galaxies
Published: 02 September 2020
  • Telescope: Explore Scientific 127 Refractor
  • Camera: ZWO 1600 MM
M 31

Messier 31 (2020)

  • Constellation: Andromeda
  • Right Ascension: 00h 42m 44.3s
  • Declination: +41° 16′ 9″
  • Distance: 2.5 million ly

Messier 31 or the Andromeda Galaxy, located in the constellation of Andromeda contains more than one trillion stars. Also visible are Messier 110 above the galaxy, and Messier 32 just below the galaxy disk. Two of the 14 satellite galaxies around Messier 31. Until 1923 it was debated whether such objects were nebula located in our galaxy or separate galaxies like our own Milky Way galaxy. In 1923 Edwin Hubble identified Cepheid variable stars in Messier 31. Cepheid variables have a well defined brightness to variability period that allows astronomers to measure distance to them by knowing their actual brightness. Their distance placed them well outside of our galaxy.

Messier 31 is actually approaching us, and is expected to merge with our galaxy in 4 billion plus years in the future.

Details
Category: Galaxies
Published: 22 August 2020
  • Messier Object
  • Telescope: EDT 80mm Reftactor
  • Camera: ZWO A071 Color
  1. Messier 51 The Whirlpool Galaxy
  2. The Hercules Galaxy Cluster (2020)
  3. Messier 61 and SN2020jfo
  4. Messier 109 (2020)

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