M74 NGC628 Phantom Galaxy - a photo on Flickriver

            Messier 74 (M74), nicknamed the Phantom Galaxy, is a grand design spiral galaxy located in the constellation Pisces. The galaxy appears face-on and has an apparent magnitude of 10. It lies at an approximate distance of 30 million light years from Earth. Its designation in the New General Catalogue is NGC 628.

Messier 74 occupies an area of 10.5 by 9.5 arc minutes of apparent sky, which corresponds to a linear diameter of 95,000 light years, almost the size of the Milky Way. The galaxy is home to about 100 billion stars.

The symmetric appearance of M74 is suspected to be the result of density waves sweeping around the galaxy’s gaseous disk which, in turn, is the result of M74’s gravitational interaction with neighbouring galaxies. The interaction and collisions of the galaxies’ clouds are also responsible for the star forming activity seen along the spiral arms of M74.

Image taken on 8 October 2023.
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Camera/ Telescope Seestar S50
IR Cut filter
11 Minutes of 10 second exposures
Frames stacked in Astro Pixel Processor
Adjusted and rotated with Photoshop CS4
   

Taken on: October 20, 2023

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