Celestial hemisphere:  Southern  ·  Constellation: Cetus (Cet)  ·  Contains:  HD15259  ·  NGC 936  ·  NGC 941
NGC 936 (Darth Vader's Galaxy), NGC941, UGC 1945, 2 Quasars, and a Galaxy Cluster, Paul H
NGC 936 (Darth Vader's Galaxy), NGC941, UGC 1945, 2 Quasars, and a Galaxy Cluster, Paul H

NGC 936 (Darth Vader's Galaxy), NGC941, UGC 1945, 2 Quasars, and a Galaxy Cluster

NGC 936 (Darth Vader's Galaxy), NGC941, UGC 1945, 2 Quasars, and a Galaxy Cluster, Paul H
NGC 936 (Darth Vader's Galaxy), NGC941, UGC 1945, 2 Quasars, and a Galaxy Cluster, Paul H

NGC 936 (Darth Vader's Galaxy), NGC941, UGC 1945, 2 Quasars, and a Galaxy Cluster

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Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays Everyone! I'm excited to be back on Astrobin as I've been away since August.  Life...

The weather decided to give us a couple of days here in December so I started exploring Stellarium and came across NGC936 with the label "Darth Vader's Starfighter". Well... how could I pass this galaxy up. NGC941 and UGC1945 were also in the field so I framed the trio. As I did more research the name more used was "Darth Vader's Galaxy" resembling his TIE Fighter. I then looked for images here on Astrobin and was surprised that there were so few. Thank goodness for Gary Imm and his amazing work. He has an excellent image and a nice description. https://www.astrobin.com/ailll1/0/

Searching online I found that there are a couple of quasars and a distant galaxy cluster in the frame also (see annotated image).

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NGC 936 (Darth Vader's Galaxy), NGC941, UGC 1945, 2 Quasars, and a Galaxy Cluster, Paul H

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