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ngc2419

The ‘Intergalactic Wanderer’

March 24, 2021 by Brian Ventrudo Filed Under: Deep Sky

A snapshot of NGC 2419, the ‘Intergalactic Wanderer’, captured with an 85mm refractor and ZWO ASI290MM camera.

Conjured by Johann Hevelius in the late renaissance, the dim, linear constellation Lynx fills in the space between the much larger constellations Gemini, Auriga, and Ursa Major, just out of the plane of the northern Milky Way. While it doesn’t much resemble its namesake and contains no bright stars, Lynx harbors one of our galaxy’s most distant outliers, the famous ‘Intergalactic Wanderer’ (NGC 2419), a globular cluster that roams the desolate expanse between the Milky Way and the Andromeda Galaxy [Read more…] about The ‘Intergalactic Wanderer’

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