Celestial hemisphere:  Northern  ·  Constellation: Cetus (Cet)  ·  Contains:  NGC 1073
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A rather rarely imaged galaxy - NGC1073, Göran Nilsson
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A rather rarely imaged galaxy - NGC1073

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A rather rarely imaged galaxy - NGC1073, Göran Nilsson
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A rather rarely imaged galaxy - NGC1073

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NGC 1073 is about 55 million light years from Earth and about 80,000 light years across, found in the Cetus constellation.

This is RGB data I processed from the 2 m Liverpool Telescope of what is a rather rarely imaged galaxy from earth, although there is a really nice HST image of its centre.

Filters and exposures:

sdss-r 19 x 90 s

Bessell B 12x 90 s (blue channel)

Bessell V 10 x 90 s (green channel)

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A rather rarely imaged galaxy - NGC1073, Göran Nilsson