Saturday, 29 March 2014

M88

Between 50 to 60 million light years away lies M88 a member of the virgo cluster of galaxies. An Sbc galaxy inclined by 64 degrees to our line of sight. My 3 hour 20 minute image shows some nice structure in some tightly wound spiral arms.
 



 
A dozen plus more Ngc & Ic galaxies have been captured here down to 16th mag.
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