Celestial hemisphere:  Northern  ·  Constellation: Leo Minor (LMi)
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The Spider Galaxy, UGC 5829 [A 1039+34/DDO 84/PGC 31923], is a low surface brightness, gas-rich quiescent irregular dwarf galaxy in Leo Minor.  It is located approximately 26 million light years from Earth.  As in the case of most deep images outside the plane of the Milky Way, in the field of view there are numerous background objects.  These include galaxies such as 2MASXJ1041594+343147 and 2MASX J10425345+3419334; clusters of galaxies such as NSC J104251+341738 (+- 1.5 billion light years); and Quasar SDSS J104220.43+342136.9 (+- 10 billion light years) and Quasar Candidate USNO-A2.0 1200-06571136.

March 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 11 and April 5, 6, 8, 9, 10, 11, 2010.
Luminance: 18 hours [108 x 600 sec subexposures] bin 1.
RGB: 8.5 hours each [51 x 600 sec subexposures] bin 2.

Image appeared in October 2010 issue of Astronomy Magazine.

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