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This 9th magnitude nearly
face on spiral galaxy just keeps growing and growing larger the
more exposure you give it. This deep image here, with over 11
hours total integration time is fully twice the size of all my
previous shots with multiple telescopes and CCD cameras. The
golden core is small for such a large galaxy, but the arms seem
to go on forever with a sky bluish tint. Look closely and you
will see the pink HII regions in the arms, mostly in the inner
areas of the galaxys disk.
This full frame shot
here with the new Atik 16200 camera makes this galaxy look small,
yet it is one of the largest galaxies in the sky outside the
Local Group at 22 arc minutes in length.
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