Celestial hemisphere:  Southern  ·  Constellation: Dorado (Dor)  ·  Contains:  HD27713  ·  NGC 1566
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NGC1566, Georg N. Nyman
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NGC1566

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NGC1566

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Another interesting target - NGC1566. Very small - only about 6minutes wide, but with an interesting detailed structure which is maybe some challenge for some telescopes.

I got this data set from Insight Observatory - taken on a 12.5" Quasar RC with a SBIG-STL11000 camera and 3nm Astrodon filters in LRGB.

The rawfiles are not perfect, stars show some asymmetric halos, which I cannot eliminate completely, but the structure of the galaxy comes out quite nice. In total over 41hours of exposure time for 248 subs, taken between 2021-11 and 2022-01 in Chile

Distance of this galaxy to our home planet - about 59 Mio LJ. Size about 170.000 LJ - not small.

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NGC1566, Georg N. Nyman