Celestial hemisphere:  Southern  ·  Constellation: Volans (Vol)  ·  Contains:  NGC 2434  ·  NGC 2442
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NGC 2442, Jochen Maes
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NGC 2442, Jochen Maes

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NGC 2442 is a galaxy in the Volans constellation, around 50 million light years from earth.

While technically a spiral galaxy, the quite distorted shape of its spiral arms is what immediately stands out. This is likely the result of gravitational interaction/merger with another galaxy in the past.

I opted to stick with a wider view (instead of cropping to just the galaxy) because the surrounding area has quite a bit of colourful stars and interstellar dust (which are both foreground elements within our own galaxy) which frames everything quite nicely I think.

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9x1800" HA
23x1200" Luminance
20x900" Red
20x900" Green
20x900" Blue

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NGC 2442, Jochen Maes