Images from the NTU telescope

The image was taken by Guillaume Rambaud, a 2nd year student from Universite de Limoges in France. The galaxy was photographed on 9 May, 2010 with the 0.5m telescope at NTU. It shows a barred spiral galaxy, NGC 2903, located at a distance of approximately 20.5 million light-years in the constellation Leo. It is has quite blue spiral arms due to all the new stars that are currently formed there.

This colour image is a combination of 10 blue, 5 green, and 5 red images which were each exposed for 2 minutes.

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