NGC 5866 (M102?) and NGC 5907

Galaxies from the NGC 5866 (M102?) group: NGC 5866 and NGC 5907

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NGC 5866 (M102?)

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Extremely elongated edge-on spiral, NGC 5907

The two large members of the NGC 5866 group,

NGC 5866 and

NGC 5907.

These galaxies are really massive: Burbidge and Burbidge derived a mass of

about 1 trillion suns for each of them. They form a physical group

together with some smaller galaxies.

Images by

John Sefick,

taken with a 25-inch Newton and a ST-6 CCD camera.


Hartmut Frommert

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Christine Kronberg

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