Hickson’s Compact Galaxy Group 23

Hickson’s Compact Galaxy Group 23
HCG 23

Hickson’s Compact Galaxy Group 23 is located around 288 million light years away in the constellation of Eridanus.

The group consists of NGC 1215 at the center, a spiral galaxy, NGC 1214 a lenticular galaxy top right, NGC 1216 a lenticular galaxy bottom left and PGC 11673 a spiral galaxy bottom right.

There are a number of small very distant background galaxies in the field.

Imaged in LRGB on my Planewave CDK 1000 at Observatorio El Sauce, Chile.

Image acquisition and processing: Mike Selby

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