Wallpaper author:
Jan Scheers
16 Mar 2022
Arp 286 - Virgo trio
Arp 286 consists of three galaxies that are gravitationally interacting almost 65 million light-years away. The large spiral galaxy at the center is NGC 5566. To its left is the small, blue spiral galaxy NGC 5569. At the right there is the distorted spiral NGC 5560. It is presumably distorted by the gravity of NGC 5569.
Image was acquired with CHI-1 (Planewave CDK24), data from 4 one clicks.
Total integration time: 320 minutes
LRGB 8 subs of 600s with each filter.
FOV 32' x 32' (0.68"/px)
Dataset from which the image was processed
NGC 5560
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