Canon 350D Hap Griffin Baader Mod
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Celestron 9.25 reduced 0.63

50% Crop

Clouds stopped any further exposure time

Sky and Telescope Editor's Choice February 4, 2009

Astronomy Magazine Online Picture of the Day March 23, 2009

NGC 772 (Arp 78) is an giant spiral galaxy approximately 130 million light years distant measuring 250,000 light years across - 2.5 times that of the Milky Way. NGC 772 has a Seyfert nucleus and is very active in star formation.

The galaxy below it in this image is E3 elliptical dwarf NGC 770 - a satellite of NGC 772 - that interacts gravitationally with it's companion causing deformation of one of the larger galaxy's arms. NGC 770 may be one of the few examples of where two dwarf galaxies have merged into one.

The Arp catalog of peculiar galaxies was compiled by astonomer and big bang critic Halton Arp.

In 2003, two supernovae were seen in NGC 772 within three weeks of one another.

January 22, 2009