Abell 1185 in Ursa Major. This is a group of galaxies, some 400 - 450 million light years distant. I spent two nights gathering data for this one. Two nights ago gave me 10.5 hours of RGB, and I completed the data collection yesterday night with 6 hours of Luminance.Abell 1185 is a group of galaxies, some 400 - 450 million light years distant in the constellation Ursa Major. One of the more interesting members in this field of view is ngc 3561, which actually consists of several galaxies, ngc 3561, ngc 3561 N, and ngc 3561 Irregular. Equally interesting is that there are more galaxies in this images than there are stars. Most of the background "gnats" are distant galaxies and quasars, up to 6 billion light years distant.And by the way; that isn't Saturn in the lower right corner. It's ngc 3536, 500 million light years distant. It has a very nice double ring structure.
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