Astronomy Friday — The Butterfly Galaxies

E.Eggert(m2c4)
Sep 16, 2022

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NGC 4567 and NGC 4568, also known as the Butterfly Galaxies, are a pair of colliding spiral galaxies in the constellation Virgo. NGC 4564, below and to the right of the Butterfly Galaxies, is an elliptical galaxy.

6x3.50 secs; Lodestar Pro Mono; Starblast 114mm Autotracker; Starlight Live; cropped

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E.Eggert(m2c4)

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