NGC 1515 is an intermediate spiral galaxy located around 60 million light years away in Dorado. The small spiral PGC14388 also listed as NGC 1515A is not interacting with NGC 1515 and is in fact around 620 million light years distant. PGC 423162 the small galaxy to the left of NGC 1515A is an estimated 810 million light years from here. The overall field is replete with numerous small far away galaxies.
Our main image is accompanied by an annotated image identifying some of these object.
Imaged in LRGB on our Planewave CDK 1000 at Observatorio El Sauce, Chile.
Image Processing: Mike Selby
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