NGC 3568

NGC 3568
NGC 3568

A busy and varied field of galaxies in Centaurus.
NGC 3568 center right is a barred spiral galaxy 133 million light years away based on NED data. It was the site of a supernova in 2014.

NGC 3564 lower right is a lenticular galaxy 152 million light years away based on NED data.

PGC33824 upper left is an elliptical galaxy 154 million light years away based on NED data.

NGC3557 at the lower left is an elliptical galaxy 163 million light years away based on NED data.

PGC 623471 upper left center appears to be a faint spiral galaxy much further away, but no red shift data is available to calculate distance.

Imaged in LRGB on our Planewave CDK 1000 at Observatorio El Sauce, Chile.
Image Processing: Mike Selby and Mark Hanson.

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