Celestial hemisphere:  Northern  ·  Constellation: Cetus (Cet)  ·  Contains:  HD16786  ·  HD16835  ·  NGC 1055
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NGC 1055, Ron Stanley
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NGC 1055

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NGC 1055

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NGC 1055 is an edge on spiral galaxy in the constellation Cetus lying approximately 52 MLy's distant from earth and is approximately 150,000 LY's across.  It is in a binary system with bright spiral galaxy M77 from which it is separated by about  7 MLy's.  I took this for the detail in the dark knotty dust lane that obscures most of the core.

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NGC 1055, Ron Stanley