Celestial hemisphere:  Southern  ·  Constellation: Grus (Gru)  ·  Contains:  IC 5294  ·  IC 5308  ·  NGC 7552  ·  NGC 7582  ·  NGC 7590  ·  NGC 7599
The Grus Quartet of Galaxies, Fernando
The Grus Quartet of Galaxies
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The Grus Quartet of Galaxies

The Grus Quartet of Galaxies, Fernando
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The Grus Quartet of Galaxies

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** Edition Note: My friend Maciel noted some leftovers of aligned frames to be cropped. The new image reflects this correction, just a clean up of those leftovers.

04 large galaxies physically close together with a strongly interacting. The two close most are NGC 7599 (left most) and NGC 7590. The largest in the direction of the center is NGC 7582 amd the botom right (east direction) NGC 7552.

A lot of other small galaxies can be seen in this spectacular stelar field.

These galaxies are in average 75 million light years away.

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10x RGB: 15 minutes bin 1x1

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The Grus Quartet of Galaxies, Fernando