Virgo - IC 1101 a distant galaxy

[Mike JW]

In my post for IC 1103, Bill mentioned IC 1101, so I grabbed the one hour gap last night and went for it and glad I did. It is an elliptical at a touch over 1 billion lyrs away. Noting the size on the image it must be big, in fact it is one of the largest elliptical known (a super giant in the world of galaxies). It is about 50 times the size of our Milky Way, about 2 million lyrs across.

In the image I have marked the brighter galaxies but I gave up marking the many mag 18 galaxies in the capture - at least 20, if not more.

C11 @ f4.5,  30 x 15 sec subs. (no significant improvement after 23 subs)

 

Mike

[Bill S]

Mike

That's a good one there - a real monster. And, so many other galaxies in that area of sky. A real treasure trove.

Bill S

[nightvision]

Really impressive, what camera are you using?  .... Just found it in another post SX Ultra.

Edited June 16, 2019 by nightvision