NGC 3115 - Lenticular Galaxy in Sextans

Formerly thought to be an elliptical galaxy, now considered a lenticular (lens-shaped) galaxy because it has a disk and a central bulge of stars, but no discernible spiral structure. Distance from Earth is about 32 million light years. It is several times larger than the Milky Way galaxy.

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Filename:	NGC3115_20220323_LRGB1~0.jpg
Album name:	27telp / Galaxies
Location and Date:	OCA Site near Anza, California, March 23, 2022
Equipment:	William Optics FLT-132 scope @f/7, ZWO ASI1600MM CMOS Camera, Astro-Physics 1200 GTO mount, Borg 50mm guide scope, Starlite Xpress Ultrastar guide camera
Settings:	Luminance, Red, Green, Blue - 10 exposures bin1x1 @ 5 minutes each
Notes:	Captured with SGPro v3.0.3.169, calibration, stacking and combining with CCDStack2, final processing with PixInsight 1.8.9
Filesize:	1081 KiB
Date added:	Mar 27, 2022
Dimensions:	2048 x 1412 pixels
Displayed:	277 times
Color Space:	sRGB
EXIF Offset:	172
EXIF Version:	version 2.31
Resolution Unit:	Inch
Software:	Adobe Photoshop Lightroom Classic 11.2 (Windows)
X Resolution:	240 dots per ResolutionUnit
Y Resolution:	240 dots per ResolutionUnit
URL:	http://www.slithergadee.net/coppergallery/displayimage.php?pid=1667
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Event Horizon - Astronomical and Terrestrial Images

NGC 3115 - Lenticular Galaxy in Sextans

Formerly thought to be an elliptical galaxy, now considered a lenticular (lens-shaped) galaxy because it has a disk and a central bulge of stars, but no discernible spiral structure. Distance from Earth is about 32 million light years. It is several times larger than the Milky Way galaxy.