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Galaxy · Camelopardalis

IC 520

A spiral galaxy in Camelopardalis, about 170 million light-years away.

Le Cœur et l'Âme · Photograph by the author · 3h 47m of exposure, DwarfLab DWARF 3

IC 520, duration not logged
IC 520 duration not logged · Unistellar eQuinox 2

It is the brightest in the group that bears its name, and another of its members, the lenticular galaxy NGC 2646, fits in the same frame. Lewis Swift discovered IC 520 in 1888. The photo shows an oval with a point-like core, in which neither arms nor bar can be made out, and next to it NGC 2646, smaller and round.

Sources: Wikipédia en français, IC 520, Wikipédia en français, NGC 2646. A figure wrong? Report it.

duration not logged 1 shot

0 towards 25h 12m · cumulative integration on this object

Temps d'intégration : the total exposure time, the sum of every exposure stacked on an object.

Designation
IC 520 · NGC 2646
Family
Galaxy
Constellation
Camelopardalis
Shots taken
1
Album date
6 July 2026
Cumulative integration
not logged

The album date is the one the photo album gives the file, not the date of the shot: the device burns none into this image.

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