NGC 2366 Dwarf Galaxy
NGC2366_m.jpg (206379 Byte)

 

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SBIG ST10 ME
L=10x200s 1xBin, R,G,B=5x2m 2xBin
Pollux 0.8m azimutal mounted telescope
3557mm (=140 inch) f/4.44
SBIG Filter Set provided with the CFW8
3-lens Wynne corrector
average of 2.19 arc seconds
MaximDL LRGB composit, PS 5.5, SGBNR, no CCDSharp
Medium seeing and good sky conditions (about mag 6.2).

Philipp Keller and Christian Fuchs

NGC 2366 belongs to the M81 group which is about 12 Million light years away. The first thing you will ask yourselve is why the nebula at the top of this galaxy appears blue and not red. We don't know, but if you calibrate the image in the usual manner, the color comes out blue/green.
In the center of this nebula there is a super massive erupting Luminous Blue Variable star with about 30-60 sun masses. It cannot be resolved in this image from the cluster.

 

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