Celestial hemisphere:  Northern  ·  Constellation: Triangulum (Tri)  ·  Contains:  NGC 925
NGC 925, Maarten Broess
NGC 925
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NGC 925

NGC 925, Maarten Broess
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NGC 925

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NGC 925 is a barred spiral Galaxy with a single spiral arm. It is 30 million light years away and is gravitationally bound with the NGC1023  group of galaxies.
William Herschel discovered it in 1784 and it was recently part of the Hubble Space Telescope Key Project. This  was a project to determine the Hubble constant within +/- 10% using Cepheid variables. 


During the 10 days of clear skies recently, I imaged NGC 925 for over 23 hours. This is a slightly cropped image.
NGC is listed with a visual magnitude of 10.12 but on individual subs it did reveal very little surface brightness.
To my surprise I was able to get some nice details and pretty colors.
Its haziness and cloudiness give away just enough detail to give this galaxy a soft and beautiful appearance in this image.

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NGC 925, Maarten Broess