January 5, 2019
Bode's Galaxy (M81) and the Cigar Galaxy (M82).
These two galaxies are observed near the Big Dipper. They are
interacting galaxies about 12 million light years away.
Not very impressive to look at, this is NGC 2419, the Intergalactic Wanderer. It is
very large star cluster, once thought to be outside of our galaxy, but now
known to orbit the Milky Way Galaxy about every 3 billion years.
It is 300,000 light years from our solar system and over 500 light years in diameter.
A tighter crop of the Intergalactic Wanderer. I've often wondered how distant
I can resolve a star with my 500mm lens, it looks like at least 300,000 light
years, so likely to the very limits of our galaxy. This is 15 minutes of exposure.
NGC 2403, a galaxy in the constellation Camelopardalis. It is about 8 million light years distant.
A tighter crop of NGC 2403, sometimes called the Jewel of Camelopardalis.
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