Galaxies
Draco Triplet

Captured this nice grouping of galaxies in the constellation of Draco. The image is the result of approx 3.5h of exposure over the nights of 13th and 14th May 2019.

The galaxy group is probably gravitationally-bound, at a distance of approx 100 million lightyears. The FOV is approx 20 arcminutes wide, from left to right:

NGC 5981: edge-on spiral
NGC 5982: elliptical galaxy around 100,000 lightyears across
NGC 5985: Seyfert galaxy approx 235,000 lightyears across. It's full extent is only partially-shown, despite the imaging duration.

ZWO ASI294MC Pro camera through an 8-inch Teleskop-Service Ritchey-Chretien telescope

Date: 14/05/2019

Photographer: Graham Wilcock

Draco Triplet

Captured this nice grouping of galaxies in the constellation of Draco. The image is the result of approx 3.5h of exposure over the nights of 13th and 14th May 2019.

The galaxy group is probably gravitationally-bound, at a distance of approx 100 million lightyears. The FOV is approx 20 arcminutes wide, from left to right:

NGC 5981: edge-on spiral
NGC 5982: elliptical galaxy around 100,000 lightyears across
NGC 5985: Seyfert galaxy approx 235,000 lightyears across. It's full extent is only partially-shown, despite the imaging duration.

ZWO ASI294MC Pro camera through an 8-inch Teleskop-Service Ritchey-Chretien telescope

Date: 14/05/2019

Photographer: Graham Wilcock