A small view of a huge galaxy

[Leonardo70 (Leonardo Orazi)]

Here is an image of the NGC1961 Galaxy ... is a distorted spiral galaxy located in the direction of the Constellation Camelopardalis at a distance of between 171 and 200 Million Light-Years, and is the largest galaxy in the local universe. Its visable light size is over 200,000 Light-Years in diameter.

http://www.starkeeper.it/NGC1961.htm

I hope you'll find it interesting.
Many thanks.

All the best,
Leo

[Larryp (Laurie)]

Great image, Leonardo!

[gregbradley]

Love it!

Greg.

[allan gould]

Stunning and detailed.

[alpal]

Great detail - you must have had good seeing.
Well done.

[RickS (Rick)]

That's a great image and a lovely object, Leo!

[Leonardo70 (Leonardo Orazi)]

Many thanks to all.

Leo

[blink138 (Pat)]

that is very lovely, i wonder what is distorting it? there does not appear to be any other large object near it
pat

[TimberLand (Justin)]

Great detail and colouring looks very natural.

I like the extra details covering the background galaxies and quasar.

Justin.

[Leonardo70 (Leonardo Orazi)]

Thanks.

@Pat: i wrote what i found about from Internet on the web page linked. Strange case anyway.

All the best,
Leo

[marco (Marco Lorenzi)]

As always a great image from you Leo, perfectly balanced, detailed and noise free
Ciao
Marco

[Leonardo70 (Leonardo Orazi)]

Thank you Marco.

All the best,
Leo