Sunday, August 30, 2015

spotted a little galaxy

Just found a tiny edge-on galaxy MCG 11-18-17, aka PGC 53422, in my comet photo from mid-July. SkyTools says magnitude 15.30 B. Wow. It's the little smudge directly below RR UMi, about half the separation of the comet from the star. Zoom in!

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