Arp 134

Posted by dcrowson
on Sunday, July 1, 2018

Arp 134 (M49, NGC 4472, UGC 7629 and others) is a large elliptical galaxy located approximately 56 million light-years away in Virgo. Found in Arp’s ‘Elliptical or elliptical like galaxies with nearby fragments,’ it is interacting with UGC 7636, a low-surface-brightness dwarf below and to the left (east) or M49.

NGC 4470 is near the bottom, center of the image.

Luminance – 24x600s – 240 minutes – binned 1x1
RGB – 8x300s – 40 minutes each – binned 2x2

360 minutes total exposure – 6 hours

Imaged May 16th, 17th and 18th, 2018 from Dark Sky New Mexico at Rancho Hidalgo (Animas, New Mexico) with a SBIG STF-8300M on an Astro-Tech AT12RCT at f/8 2432mm.

LRGB - https://www.flickr.com/photos/dcrowson/41330402510/sizes/l

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