Celestial hemisphere:  Southern  ·  Constellation: Libra (Lib)  ·  Contains:  NGC 5729
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Paige's Star and NGC 5729, Space_Man_Spiff
Paige's Star and NGC 5729
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Paige's Star and NGC 5729

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Paige's Star and NGC 5729, Space_Man_Spiff
Paige's Star and NGC 5729
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Paige's Star and NGC 5729

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A close friend on my soccer team lost his wife a few months ago. As tribute his family named a star after her. You can see it on the attached image. It was a challenge to find it. When I was processing the image I noticed a galaxy photo bomber in the bottom right corner. Turns out it is NGC 5729 and is around 92 million light years distant.

I was not able to find much info on this galaxy except a Wikipedia page: https://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=de&u=https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/NGC_5729&prev=search

"NGC 5729 is a 12.6 mag bright spiral galaxy of the Hubble type "Sb" in the constellation Libra on the ecliptic , which is estimated to be 92 million light-years from the Milky Way ."

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Paige's Star and NGC 5729, Space_Man_Spiff