A Virgo Trio: NGC 5566 & Friends (Arp 286) in LRGB (CrestwoodSky)

Celestial hemisphere: Northern · Constellation: Virgo (Vir) · Contains: NGC 5560 · NGC 5566 · NGC 5569

A Virgo Trio: NGC 5566 & Friends (Arp 286) in LRGB, CrestwoodSky

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A Virgo Trio: NGC 5566 & Friends (Arp 286) in LRGB

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A Virgo Trio: NGC 5566 & Friends (Arp 286) in LRGB

This image was taken over two nights in mid-April 2023 with an ASI2600mm Pro through a Celestron 8" EdgeHD on an EQ6-R Pro.

The image comprises:

L: 231 x 60s
R: 60 x 60s
G: 65 x 60s
B: 65 x 60s

Total integration time was seven hours and one minute. The image was processed in Pixinsight and tweaked in Photoshop.

NGC 5566, the barred spiral galaxy in the center of the image, was first discovered by William Herschel in 1786. I picked it randomly from a star chart while looking for a spiral galaxy to image (it happened to be a good choice). The galaxy is about 65 million light years away.

To the lower right of NGC 5566 is the intermediate spiral galaxy NGC 5569 and to the left is NGC 5560. The three galaxies are interacting gravitationally (which is thought to explain the distortion in NGC 5560's shape). The trio appears in Halton Arp's Atlas of Peculiar Galaxies as Arp 286. NGC 5566 is thought to be an especially large galaxy, measuring 150,000 light years across.

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