Sweetman Astrophotography

I was reprocessing some older data, and I decided to go down the rabbit hole trying to find all the galaxies in the picture and how far away they are.  I wasn’t able to find data on all of them, but it’s just mind-blowing to me that I was able to look back in time by 1.6 Billion years with a backyard telescope and a simple Canon camera.

List of distances for the annotated galaxies that I was able to find.

M51 Whirlpool Galaxy – 23.5Mly

NGC 5195 – 25 Mly

IC 4277 – Not Measured

IC 4278 – 245 Mly

IC 4263 – 140 Mly

PGC2286797 – 110Mly

PGC2289565 – 1.1Bly

PGC2294282 – 1.6 Bly

PGC2297248 – Not Measured

PGC2297311 – Not Measured

PGC2300341 – 900Mly

PCG2292105 – Not Measured

PGC2287260 – 900Mly

PCG2287732 – Not Measured