Celestial hemisphere:  Southern  ·  Constellation: Libra (Lib)  ·  Contains:  NGC 5792
NGC 5792, Tom Harrison
NGC 5792
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NGC5792 is quite a beautiful spiral galaxy seen almost edge-on in the direction of the Constellation Libra, positioned at a distance of 83 Million Light-Years. This galaxy has a delicate and smooth elongated eliptical outer spiral arm which is actually the melding of two spiral arms emanating from the central bright region and joining in what appears to be a continuous ring around the galaxy. A bright red dwarf star along the edge of one of the outer spiral arms shines bright red at magnitude 9.6. Examination of a negative image shows 780 galaxies down to mag 22.5. There is a very faint mag 24 one. There are also a few quasars in the image. There is very little information about NGC5792 found in the literature.

Object: NGC5792

Distance: 83 Million Light-Years

Magnitude: 12.1

Date: June 2011

Place: Fort Davis, TX

LRGB: 450:130:160:210

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NGC 5792, Tom Harrison