Celestial hemisphere:  Northern  ·  Constellation: Cassiopeia (Cas)  ·  Contains:  NGC 147
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NGC 147 a victim of Andromeda?, Rob Johnson
NGC 147 a victim of Andromeda?
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NGC 147 a victim of Andromeda?

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NGC 147 a victim of Andromeda?, Rob Johnson
NGC 147 a victim of Andromeda?
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NGC 147 a victim of Andromeda?

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NGC 147 is a small spheroidal galaxy and a satellite to the Andromeda galaxy M31 and so very likley stripped of stars and gas due to various encounters with big brother. Discovered by John Herschel in 1829. We have had a few partly clear nights and wanted to do some testing and was attracted to this subject more or less by random. Not much detail is evident even from Hubble so my 3h luminance is unlikley to show more details if extended to many hours. Captured some brief colour information enough to show the galaxy is composed mainly of red stars. The tiny 'jet' at about 9 o'clock from the nucleus is shown by Hubble to be a small galaxy though without any designation that I can find, maybe for Christmas they will let me name it?

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