Galaxy Gallery 2020 -

As we lead our daily lives, our planet Earth rotates around our Sun cradled within the Milky Way galaxy we belong to. Every night, amateur astronomers all over the world peer at the sky using their telescopes and cameras.

We observe many distant galaxies like our own located at unimaginable distances away.

M33, Abell 262, IC 1296, NGC 5907

M101, NGC 4565/NGC 4562, M66/M65, M51, NGC 891

M31, M33, M106, M51, M82, M104

M33, NGC 253, M77, NGC 891, M110, M31

Pinwheel Galaxy, 3rd largest member of the Local Group, behind Andromeda Galaxy and Milky Way.

First 3 min test exposures from auto-guiding
Resolution: 3008 x 3008

Test exposures from auto-guiding
Resolution: 3008 x 3008,
last imaged 23 years ago in Oct. 1998

Best example of an edge-on galaxy, it's 120,000 light years across
Resolution: 3008 x 3008

3 min test exposures from auto-guiding
Resolution: 4656 x 3520

UV/IR cut filter, Center view of the galaxy
Resolution: 3008 x 3008

M32, M51, M87, M102, M82, M81

UV/IR cut filter
Small elliptical galaxy
Resolution: 3008 x 3008

It's small companion NGC 5195 is over 65,000 light-years across, last imaged 1999. Resolution: 4656

Elliptical galaxy with jet being emitted from its black hole.
Res: 2560 x 1440, last imaged 1998

2 arcmins from M102 is NGC 5867, mag. 16.5 galaxy 574M light-years
Resolution: 2560 x 1440

Resolution: 4656 x 3520, last imaged 1998

Contains a black hole 15 times the mass of the Milky Way
Resolution: 2560 x 1440

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