🌊 — patroclus/astro/eel 🍉 (@astronauteel.bsky.social)

Backyard #astrophotography time! NGC 1097 is ~45 million light years away. Its central supermassive black hole is surrounded by a bright, star formation ring ~5000 light years in diameter. You can image that ring from your backyard! Top: Hubble (in orbit) Bottom: me (30 mins data/Bortle 9 sky)

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