Celestial hemisphere:  Northern  ·  Constellation: Boötes (Boo)  ·  Contains:  PGC 2152475  ·  PGC 51503
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UGC9242, Riedl Rudolf
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UGC9242

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UGC9242

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UGC 9242 is a extremely slim edge-on galaxy located 85 million light years away in the constellation of Bootes. The visual size is almost 6 arcmin. The real size is 150,000 light years. She is almost 20x longer than it is wide.

Due to light clouds only 50 min of integration time finally was ok to make this picture

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UGC9242, Riedl Rudolf