M45 Background Galaxies, Tim Stone

M45 Background Galaxies

Equipment

Loading...

Acquisition details

Loading...

Description

One of the great things about having a good set of data on an extended object is that there's so much to mine out of it. Among the treasures of M45 is an extensive field of background galaxies like these. None of these are cataloged in the PGC. A few of them are included in the 2MAS. Most of them are just another anonymous island universe, their slight smudge belying their billions of stars, their stellar nurseries, pulsars, neutron stars, black holes, and planets.

Image acquired at Sugar Grove Observatory, a facility of Twin City Amateur Astronomers, (tcaa.us).

Comments

Histogram

M45 Background Galaxies, Tim Stone