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Old 03-September-2007, 06:16 PM
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Default Barnard's Galaxy NGC 6822

One of my favorite type objects are dwarf galaxies like this one. Located on the eastern edge of Sagittarius it is seen through the outskirts of the Milky Way. At about 1.7 million light years it is a member of the local group. It contains only some 10 million stars so is about equal to 10 M13 type globular clusters. But it obviously has a lot of star formation going on based on all the HII regions. Many are in the form of bubbles blown by solar wind of the super massive stars they created. This is a reduced and cropped image. The full image is at:

http://www.usenet-replayer.com/cgi/c...271455.16.jpeg

Taken with my 14" LX200R on a Paramount ME using a STL-11000XM camera. Luminosity images are four 10 minute frames binned 2x2 while the RGB images consist of two 10 minute frames binned 3x3 for each color.
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