Galaxies
NGC 5033 in Canes Venatici

This galaxy has a bright nucleus and relatively faint spiral arms. It is a Seyfert galaxy with an active nucleus containing an off-centre supermassive black hole. It is approx 40 million lightyears away and 125,000 lightyears across.
It has been speculated that a past merger with a lower-mass compact satellite galaxy, caused warping of the disk and disruption of the spiral arms of NGC 5033.

This image is the result of just over 3.hours of data capture, over 3 evenings in April 2020.

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

Date: 21/04/2020

Photographer: Graham Wilcock

NGC 5033 in Canes Venatici

This galaxy has a bright nucleus and relatively faint spiral arms. It is a Seyfert galaxy with an active nucleus containing an off-centre supermassive black hole. It is approx 40 million lightyears away and 125,000 lightyears across.
It has been speculated that a past merger with a lower-mass compact satellite galaxy, caused warping of the disk and disruption of the spiral arms of NGC 5033.

This image is the result of just over 3.hours of data capture, over 3 evenings in April 2020.

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

Date: 21/04/2020

Photographer: Graham Wilcock