#m102

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The Spindle Galaxy, M102 // Tobiasz

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M102

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Spindle Galaxy NGC 5866 in Draco

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Messier Objects: In order, M101 (Pinwheel Galaxy), M102 (Spindle Galaxy), M103 (Star Cluster), M104 (Sombrero Galaxy), M105 (Elliptical Galaxy), M106 (Spiral Galaxy), M107 (Globular Cluster), M108 (Spiral Galaxy), M109 (Barred Spiral Galaxy), and M110 (Dwarf Spheroidal Galaxy). 

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M102, NGC5866

M102 is really the only controversial entry in Messier's catalogue. Some have concluded it was an erroneous duplicate observation of M101, a conclusion which Messier's friend and fellow observer Mechain stated some years after his original discovery. However, a number of cogent arguments suggest that both men actually observed the Spindle Galaxy, NGC5866 in the constellation Draco, and it is this galaxy which is shown here. It is a lenticular galaxy of type S0 (essentially a spiral galaxy without the spiral structure). This picture was created from observations with the T2KA CCD camera at the Kitt Peak National Observatory's 0.9-meter telescope in March of 1995.

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