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Old 07-October-2008, 12:36 AM
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Default The Saturn Galaxy

I nominate NGC 6470 to be called The Saturn Galaxy. It even has an E ring. It sits among other galaxies of various distance. NGC 6470 is the nearest of those I was able to get NED data on. It is a bit over 60 million light years away. Thus it is a very small spiral but not classed as a dwarf. Below it is NGC 6471. While it appears about the same angular size as NGC 6470 it is about 350 million light years away so about 6 times larger than NGC 6470. But the elliptical to its west appears the largest of the group and in fact is. It's red shift shows a distance of 530 million light years! It must really be a huge elliptical! I wasn't able to get red shift data for most of the others in the image. I have posted a finder chart showing the ID of the brighter galaxies in the image. I intentionally put NGC 6470 to the side of the image in order to capture as many bright galaxies as possible.

The night was horrible with 4" FWHM seeing and very poor transparency with strong wind gusts. That I got anything amazes me.

The full uncropped image with less compression is at:
http://www.spacebanter.com/attachmen...6&d=1223320472

14" LX200R @ f/10, L=4x10', RGB=2x10' binned 3x3, STL-11000XM, Paramount ME

Rick
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