Celestial hemisphere:  Northern  ·  Constellation: Cetus (Cet)  ·  Contains:  84 Cet  ·  M 77  ·  NGC 1055  ·  NGC 1068  ·  NGC 1072
Cetus duo M77 and NGC 1055, Jan Scheers
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Cetus duo M77 and NGC 1055

Cetus duo M77 and NGC 1055, Jan Scheers
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Cetus duo M77 and NGC 1055

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LRGB image of M77 and NGC 1055 in the constellation of Cetus.

The face-on view of M77 (left), with its bright nucleus and spiral arms, contrasts nicely with the narrowed, dusty appearance of edge-on spiral galaxy NGC 1055 (right). The pair are dominant members of a small galaxy group about 47 to 60 million light-years away. At that estimated distance, M77 is one of the most remote and largest objects in Messier's catalog and is separated from its neighbor NGC 1055 by at least 500,000 light-years. The field of view here is about the size of the full Moon on the sky and includes colorful foreground Milky Way stars (with diffraction spikes) along with more distant background galaxies.

Image acquired with the ASA500N telescope and FLI PL16803 camera from Telescope Live in El Sauce Observatory, Chile.

Total integration time: 80 minutes
4 subs of 300s with each filter (LRGB).

Processing with Astro Pixel Processor, Photoshop CC with AstroPanel V4.2, Astronomy Tools, Topaz Sharpen AI and Denoise Projects 3 plug-ins.

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