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Old 11-07-2015, 07:17 PM
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Fornax Dwarf in perspective

Dear all, below is the link to last addition to my galleries:

The Fornax Dwarf

The Fornax Dwarf Spheroidal is an elliptical dwarf galaxy in the constellation Fornax that was discovered in 1938 by Harlow Shapley from South Africa, shortly after he discovered the Sculptor dwarf, which image I posted a while ago. The galaxy is a satellite of the Milky Way and contains six globular clusters; the largest, NGC 1049, was discovered before the galaxy itself.

Like the Sculptor dwarf, this galaxy has an extremely low surface brightness yet covers a large area of sky. To put things in the right perspective I created a comparison image with both the Fornax and Sculptor dwarfs along an image of the full moon reduced to the same scale. I believe this will surprise more than somebody..

Sculptor and Fornax dwarfs in perspective

Hope you will like this image a bit out the bitten path. LRGB collecting about 10 hours of light..

Clear skies
Marco
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