Celestial hemisphere:  Southern  ·  Constellation: Virgo (Vir)  ·  Contains:  NGC 5247
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NGC 5247, Doug Summers
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NGC 5247

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NGC 5247

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NGC 5247 is a grand design galaxy which lies ~60 million light-years away in Virgo.   Two prominent arms, and a third arm between those two give the galaxy a unique appearance.   The wider field displays many small faint-fuzzies at greater distances. 

There aren't too many images of this galaxy on Astrobin.   I'm surprised at that given how much detail the galaxy displays.   It seems to deserve more attention.

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Description: SPCC and BXT linear deconvolution. Also a slightly tighter crop.

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