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      Featured wallpaper
      Wallpaper author:
      Bernard Miller

      07 Jul 2026

      NGC 3166 and NGC 3169

      This is a dataset of galaxy pair NGC 3166 and NGC 3169. It contains 21 hours of total exposure time in LRGB. NGC 3166 is a lenticular galaxy and NGC 3169 is a spiral galaxy. These galaxies are about 65 million light years away in the constellation Sextans and are separated by an estimated 160,000 light years.

      Dataset author
      Bernard Miller
      T-17

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      • Type of target
        ............................................................................................................................
        Group of Galaxies
      • Camera
        ............................................................................................................................
        FLI Proline PL16803
      • Target coordinates
        ............................................................................................................................
        RA 10 13 45.7 Dec 03 25 29
      • Hemisphere
        ............................................................................................................................
        Northern
      • Telescope location
        ............................................................................................................................
        United States of America
      • Celestial objects
        ............................................................................................................................
        NGC 3156, NGC 3165, NGC 3166, NGC 3169
      • Transient event
        ............................................................................................................................
        No
      • Observed on
        ............................................................................................................................
        03 Nov 2025 - 20 Mar 2026
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      Total Exposure
      Subframes
      Luminance12009h27
      Red12004h12
      Green12004h12
      Blue12004h12

      NGC 3166 and NGC 3169