Celestial hemisphere:  Southern  ·  Constellation: Centaurus (Cen)  ·  Contains:  NGC 5102  ·  The star ι Cen
Iota's Ghost (V2 with improved background star colours), Blue
Iota's Ghost (V2 with improved background star colours)
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Iota's Ghost (V2 with improved background star colours)

Iota's Ghost (V2 with improved background star colours), Blue
Iota's Ghost (V2 with improved background star colours)
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Iota's Ghost (V2 with improved background star colours)

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EDITED: I have removed a specific distance to NGC5102 below as I have since found via different planetarium software and websites, distances ranging from 12.1 to 152 million light years with 39 million light years mentioned as well! suffice to say it is millions of light years away and very dim compared to i Cen..

This is NGC5102, commonly known as Iota's Ghost, a tough target to process nicely as it is a diffuse, mag 9.65 galaxy which is millions of light years distant and hiding in the glare of the much closer (approx 59 light years) Iota Centauri, a star of magnitude 2.75.

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Iota's Ghost (V2 with improved background star colours), Blue