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This image was created by median combining 7 x 90 second unfiltered images taken with a Takahashi Epsilon 250 with SBIG ST-8XE CCD. The image has been cut down to be 25 x 25 arc minutes in size.
Messier 77 (NGC 1068) is an attractive spiral galaxy best known as having a bright Active Galactic Nucleus (AGN) and being the prototype "Seyfert Galaxy". The galaxy has a diameter of 170,000 light years and is about 60 million light years away.
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In collaboration with the Remote Astronomical Society Observatory
Martin Nicholson - Daventry, United Kingdom.
This page was last updated on January 14th 2008.