Zwicky's nonet (Abell 407)  and NGC1167, Dan_I

Zwicky's nonet (Abell 407) and NGC1167

Zwicky's nonet (Abell 407)  and NGC1167, Dan_I

Zwicky's nonet (Abell 407) and NGC1167

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Description

Zwicky's nonet (top left) is a remarkable group of 9 merging galaxies in the galaxy cluster Abell 407, about 700 millions l.y. away, in Perseus. It is rather small (about 1') and faint so rather challenging from my Bortle 7 backyard with 750mm focal length.

The field contains many other distant objects as lenticular galaxy NGC1167 about 270 millions l.y. away with faint absorption lanes (bottom right).

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Zwicky's nonet (Abell 407)  and NGC1167, Dan_I