Leo I Dwarf Galaxy 1° north of Regulus
Taken by Odd Trondal on December 31, 2019 @
Oslo
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Time: 03:04UT 2019-12-31 Exp.23x62sec.
Telescope: 0.25m f/4.7 with ST-10XME CCD 1.18"/pixel
Odd Trondal Obs.code 238 Oslo Norway
(Plutonium Isotope. Half-life 87.7 years (Atom-weight 238) gives power to
the Voyagers and other distant spacecrafts.)
Leo I Dwarf Galaxy is a dwarf spheroidal galaxy with a diameter of approximately 2000 light-years and a mass between 15 to 30 million times the mass of the Sun. It is located about 820 000 light-years away in the constellation Leo and is running away from us at a speed of about 285 km/s. + Sloan Digital Sky Survey 0.3"/pixel.
The Sloan Digital Sky Survey
https://www.sdss.org/index.php
Software used:TheSky6,CCDSoft 5, MSB Astroart 7.0, Paint
Photographer's website:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/odd_trondal/
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