Celestial hemisphere:  Northern  ·  Constellation: Draco (Dra)
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Draco Dwarf Galaxy, William Maxwell
Draco Dwarf Galaxy
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Draco Dwarf Galaxy

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Draco Dwarf Galaxy, William Maxwell
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Draco Dwarf Galaxy

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This tiny companion galaxy to our Milky Way, as others have said, is  more like a faint loose  open cluster (most apparent slightly 11'oclock of center. The galaxy probably fills most of this FOV).   As one article put it :

"The Draco galaxy is far too faint and spread out to see even through a telescope. "

In fact both my usual plantarium programs didn't even have  it, so I had to rig a wifi connection to SkySafari and plate solve that I was in the right place. I probably needed a LOT more exposure, but the clouds are back.

Color is actually  from awhile back from one of those nights the clouds rolled in and cut the imaging session short.

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Draco Dwarf Galaxy, William Maxwell

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