Thursday, April 17, 2025

The Spindle Galaxy

82 mins of RGB of the Spindle Galaxy (NGC 3115) taken with a Sky-Watcher Esprit 80 ED fitted with a field flattener using an ASI 533MM Pro camera and filter set. NGC 3115 is a lenticular galaxy in Sextans around 32 million light-years away from Earth, is larger than our Milky Way and contains the nearest supermassive black hole of ~ one billion solar masses! Annotating the wide field image shows this area of sky to be filled with galaxies! 

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Spindle Galaxy 



Chris Bowden

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