NGC 1316 & 1317 Chile New

NGC 1316 is in the Fornax galaxy cluster, 60 million light-years away.

It contains a supermassive black hole at the center, helping to explain why it's the 4th brightest radio source in the sky.

NGC 1317 is the smaller galaxy just to the north.

Data from El Sauce, Chile 17” Planewave CDK

LRGB - 450,300,300,300

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