NGC2997 in Antlia

Barry · Post by **Barry** » Wed Jan 20, 2010 11:06 pm

19 x 10minute subs, darks and flats subtracted
ED120 APO
Orion Starshoot Pro III color CCD.

55 million light years away, this classic and very pretty spiral galaxy peeks at us through the thick veil of starry hosts in our home galaxy.

Small, but nice. Picked up a few faint fuzzies with it too so I am pretty pleased.

I don't like compressing them so much for the forums as they get pretty lossy so you can see a higher resolution version in my image gallery http://www.asignobservatory.com/index.p ... Itemid=112

Baz.

wintertriangle22 · Post by **wintertriangle22** » Thu Jan 21, 2010 11:54 pm

Excellent photo of spiral galaxy in Antlia,near the right edge there is a spiral
galaxy edge on , below which is yet another galaxy ,either spiral or irregular
- all very far away
There are about 200 billion known galaxies (in reality probably much more),each containing about 200 billion stars!, separated by incredibly vast distances

Barry · Post by **Barry** » Fri Jan 22, 2010 1:15 pm

Thanks mate. I think our galaxy hosts 200 to 400 billion stars. They are still debating I think.