Galaxies
NGC 185 in Cassiopeia
NGC 185 is a dwarf elliptical galaxy, approximately 10,000 lightyears in diameter. It lies just over 2 million lightyears distant and is a satellite of Messier 31, which is around 7 degrees away.
Interestingly, eight of the apparent foreground stars are actually globular clusters, orbiting NGC 185.
The image is the result of exactly 3 hours of data capture, over two nights in August and September 2019.
ZWO ASI294MC Pro camera through a Teleskop-Service 8-inch Ritchey-Chretien telescope
Date: 19/09/2019
Photographer: Graham Wilcock
