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Old 24-12-2008, 09:53 AM
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Interesting point - I checked out the distances and they are all similar (give or take 10 million ly's.

NGC1365 65 million ly (extends 200,000 ly)
NGC1097 53 million ly
NGC1566 51 million ly

I selected these based on an astroplanner search sorted by angular size and magnitude. Judging by the image scale in the pictures I guess that means they are all similar in actual size?
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