Daily Image
03-04-2018
ARP286 (NGC 5566 & 5560)
| Submitter: | Albert van Duin |
| Description: | NGC 5566 is a big galaxy (diameter 150.000 ly) in the constellation of Virgo, at a distance of 90 Mly. It is gravitationally interacting with NGC 5560, the thin distorted galaxy to its right. This pair is entry number 286 in Halton Arp's "Atlas of Peculiar Galaxies" which was published back in 1966. The blue galaxy above NGC 5566 is NGC 5569, but it is probably at a very different distance. On the lower left, near the edge of the frame is galaxy PGC 51269. Due to the beautiful contrasting colours, this group is especially photogenic. This image consists of 48, 10 minute LRGB integrations with a cooled CCD camera mounted on a 40-cm telescope. The images were acquired autonomously by the ACP Scheduler software that controls a remote observatory in Burlage, Germany. For the full image please click here: https://www.astrobin.com/full/338025/0/ |
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