Celestial hemisphere:  Northern  ·  Constellation: Serpens (Ser)  ·  Contains:  NGC 5921
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NGC 5921, Doug Summers
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NGC 5921

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NGC 5921

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A dramatically barred and ringed spiral galaxy in Serpens, NGC 5921 shows quite a bit of detail for it's ~65-80 Million light-year distance.  Hubble visited this object and took a nice image of it.  There's also a nice image from Mt. Lemmon in Az.   Otherwise, there are not that many images I found of this object on AstroBin.  

This galaxy's size is a bit on the small side.  At ~4 arcmins extent, the true size for this distance would be between 60K-90K light-years in diameter.

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Description: Brought up the core a bit to differentiate and add some minor "pop" above the background haze of the extended arms

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NGC 5921, Doug Summers