NGC 206 - Peering into the Andromeda Galaxy M31 (Douglas J Struble)

Celestial hemisphere: Northern · Constellation: Andromeda (And) · Contains: M 32 · NGC 221

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NGC 206 - Peering into the Andromeda Galaxy M31

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NGC 206 - Peering into the Andromeda Galaxy M31

I captured this originally with my newer GSO 12" Truss Newtonian but realized my secondary mirror was not in line with my camera. This is my first newtonian telescope and have been getting the bugs worked out. I ended up recapturing everything from the ground up. I am much happier with this new image.

NGC 206 (also known as OB 78) is a large, bright star forming region of some 4,000 light-years across, nestled within the outer arm of our neighboring Andromeda galaxy (M31) at a distance of about 2.5 million light-years from Earth in the constellation of Andromeda.

It is one of the largest star forming regions known in our local group of galaxies, much larger than the clusters of stars in the disk of our Milky Way galaxy. And, it is also the brightest star cloud in the Andromeda galaxy as viewed from Earth.

NGC 206 bears a strong resemblance to the Double Cluster (NGC 884 and NGC 869) in the constellation of Perseus. Its center is believed to be where two arms of the Andromeda galaxy are intersecting thereby creating the dense material leading to the large star formations. The estimated age of NGC 206 is 20 million years and it has a total mass of approximately 200.000 suns.

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