Celestial hemisphere:  Northern  ·  Constellation: Andromeda (And)  ·  Contains:  NGC 891
NGC 891, Doug Summers
NGC 891
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NGC 891

NGC 891, Doug Summers
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NGC 891

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Part of the NGC 1023 group of galaxies, NGC 891 is about the size of the Milky Way galaxy and with similar gas (it does not have a bar as the Milky Way does).    It is only about 30 Million light-years distant, and appears in the Andromeda constellation.

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  • NGC 891, Doug Summers
    Original
  • NGC 891, Doug Summers
    B
  • Final
    NGC 891, Doug Summers
    C

B

Description: Added integration time. Now 2hrs, 20mins. Reprocessed and brought up saturation, and worked on the dust lane features.

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C

Description: SPCC, BXT, and GHS reprocessing

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NGC 891, Doug Summers