One of my last targets for galaxy season is the Draco Triplet. This is an interesting group of galaxies of different morphologies. I was able to get 26 hours of data on these over four nights in May.
The prominent spiral galaxy, NGC 5985, is 140 million light years away. The large elliptical galaxy in the center, NGC 5982, is 123 million light years away. In the center of this galaxy is a black hole estimated to be 830,000,000 times the mass of the sun. The edge-on barred spiral galaxy is NGC 5981, and it lies about 120 million light years away.
There are quite a few other small galaxies in the image, including PGC 55561 at 148 million light years, and NGC 5976 at 215 million light years.
Following is the image with annotations,
