| Description | NGC 454 is a pair of interacting galaxies located 150 million light-years away in the constellation Phoenix. John Herschel discovered this pair on October 5, 1834. Dreyer described it as “very faint, small, round, with a brighter middle.” The pair consists of a large elliptical galaxy that has been disrupted by the merger and a bluish, gas-rich irregular galaxy. The irregular galaxy may have also caused a trail of hot blue stars visible to the right in the image. The elliptical galaxy is on the left, while the irregular galaxy is on the right, along with the trail of stars. |
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| Data/Processing Attribution | Data was purchased from Telescope Live and I did its processing only. |
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| Distances/Size | Distance to the object- 3.2 million light years; angular size in the sky is about 71’ X 42’ (minutes); size of the galaxy is about 61,000 light years in diameter |
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| Equipment | Mount-Software Bisque Paramount MX+ GEM; Scope- Takahashi, 106 mm aperture, 382mm focal length; Camera- QHY600 M Pro. |
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| Observatory | Telescope Live, IC Astronomical Observatory, Spain. |
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| Exposure | LRGB filters, total exposure- 15 hours 20 min. |
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