Comet 46P/Wirtanen and NGC2685
Taken by mark buxton on January 16, 2019 @ Dudley UK
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A clear sky for a while, some moonlight and light polluted but still a relatively bright comet. The difuse coma is elongated towards the north east, away from the sun. To the upper left of the comet is NGC2685 a polar ring galaxy 42 million light years away , mag 12.1 Tal 125 Apo Canon EOS-M 10 x 1min ISO 1600 20:30 UT Stacked in DeepSkyStacker Contrast in GIMP
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wikipedia page on NGC2685

It is an object of great scientific interest, because polar-ring galaxies are very rare galaxies. They are thought to form when two galaxies gravitationally interact with each other
Posted by markbuxton 2019-01-17 19:00:14
 
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