Celestial hemisphere:  Southern  ·  Constellation: Dorado (Dor)  ·  Contains:  NGC 1566
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NGC 1566 - The Spanish Dancer Spiral Galaxy, MADNUG - Alex Lin
NGC 1566 - The Spanish Dancer Spiral Galaxy
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NGC 1566 - The Spanish Dancer Spiral Galaxy

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NGC 1566 - The Spanish Dancer Spiral Galaxy, MADNUG - Alex Lin
NGC 1566 - The Spanish Dancer Spiral Galaxy
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NGC 1566 - The Spanish Dancer Spiral Galaxy

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NGC 1566 is an island universe of billions of stars about 60 million light-years from Earth in the southern constellation Doradus. us. The galaxy has a magnificent spiral structure, with two elegant spiral arms spanning more than 100,000 light-years. The spiral arms are distributed with a large number of blue star clusters, pink star-forming regions and swirling cosmic dust lanes. NGC 1566's dazzling nucleus makes this spiral galaxy one of the closest and brightest Seyfert galaxies.
Unfortunately, I don't really like the bright star next to the galaxy. The T1 telescope is not as good as the Niuban telescope. It feels more fleshy, so I cut that piece and adopted a more radical FOV.

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NGC 1566 - The Spanish Dancer Spiral Galaxy, MADNUG - Alex Lin