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NGC 1762 in Orion
Date of Obs ....... January 13, 2021 |
The only galaxy among the objects in Orion is located in close proximity to the carbon star W Orionis. W Orionis makes a triangle with two equally bright stars oriented north-south which are west of W, and NGC 1762 is a short star-hop from the more northerly of those two. I noted it as faint but quite concentrated, which made it not too difficult to see; it was like a fuzzy star without structure or orientation. This galaxy is approximately 209 million light years away, and kind of surprising to me that a distant galaxy would be visible through the gas and dust in our own galaxy in the Orion direction. |