Friday, Jun 20, 2025

Most galaxies are clumped together in groups or clusters. A neighboring galaxy is never far away. But this galaxy, known as NGC 6503, has found itself in a lonely position, at the edge of a strangely empty patch of space called the Local Void. The Local Void is a huge stretch of space that is at least 150 million light-years across. It seems completely empty of stars or galaxies. The galaxy's odd location on the edge of this never-land led stargazer Stephen James O'Meara to dub it the "Lost-In-Space galaxy" in his 2007 book, Hidden Treasures.NGC 6503 is 18 million light-years away from us in the northern circumpolar constellation of Draco. NGC 6503 spans some 30,000 light-years, about a third of the size of the Milky Way. Total lights integration time 5:20 hour Lights (Luminance) 64 x 300 sec Imaging telescope Sky-Watcher Reflector 300mm/1200 mm quattro Imaging camera ZWO Optical asi 2600 mc (CMOS) MountEquatorial Sky-Watcher CQ350 PRO AccessoriesComa corrector Sky-WatcherOff-axis guider ZWO Optical Processed withPixInsight (Pleiades Astrophoto) LOCATION Monte Maggio Savignone Italy SQM 20,70