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    M65

     

    M65 Is about 35 million light years away in the constellation Leo. It is about 100,000 light years across, and similer in size to our own galaxy . M65 is one of the Leo triplet group of galaxies.
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    M51 Whirlpool galaxy

     

    The whirlpool galaxy is about 37 million light years away in the constellation Canes Venatice. NGC 5195 a smaller galaxy is passing close behind the whirlpool causing intence star birth within M51.
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    M63 Sunflower galaxy

     

    M63 The sunflower galaxy is about 37 million light years away in the constellation Canes Venatici. M63 is part of the M51 group of 8 galaxies bound by gravity traveling through space together.
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    NGC 4244

     

    NGC 4244 Is about 7 million light years away in the constellation Canes Venatici. It's diameter is approximately 65,000 light years and it is receding from Earth at 494 km/per second.
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    NGC 4565 Needle galaxy

     

    NGC 4565 The needle galaxy is about 49 million light years away in the constellation Coma Berenices. The needle galaxy is one of the most famous edge-on galaxies visible through a small telescope.
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    M64 Black eye galaxy

     

    M64 Is about 24 million light years away in the constellation Coma Berenices. The outer region of M64 rotates in the opposite direction from the gas and stars in the inner region.
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    M31 Andromeda galaxy & M32 - M110

     

    Taken with a William Optics zenithstar 80 ED scope & Atik 383L CCDcamera using a luminance filter RGB channels to be taken.
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    M31 Andromeda galaxy & M32

     

    Image taken with a William Optics FLT 110 Treplet APO & Atik 383L CCD camera Luminance filter RGB to be taken and added later.
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    M33 Triangulum galaxy

     

    The triangulum galaxy is about 3 million light years away in the constellation triangulum
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    M31 Andromeda NEW IMAGE

     

    My first colour image taken with baader 2" LRGB filter set with my Atik 383L CCD camera. I will get better as time goes on. M31 is about 2.52 million light years away.
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    M101 The Pinwheel galaxy

     

    M101 Is a large spiral galaxy about 25 million light years away.It has a diameter of 170,000 light years and is about 70 percent larger than our Milky Way.
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    NGC 4725

     

    NGC 4725 Is about 60 million light years away in the constellation Coma Berenices.
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    M81 -M82 Widefield Image

     

    M82 The "cigar galaxy" ( Top of image) is gravitionally bound to M81 "Bode's galaxy" the galaxies are about 12 million light years away.M81 has a 70 million solar mass black at it's centre.
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    Leo triplet of galaxies

     

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