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Since we are all imaging galaxies right now and I get these really faint smudges in my images that seem like galaxies just farther away, I often plate solve and then google the NGC number of the galaxies to see how far away that galaxy is. So I thought I'd post the question on here. What's the farthest galaxy you've imaged and what size scope did you use?
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Completely by accident in my posted image of NGC 3718, in the background, a distant cluster about 3 billion ly.

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Somewhere in the smudge in these images is YGKOW G1, a galaxy that’s 4 billion ly away.

But the reason I pointed my light bucket—well, at 4”, maybe a teacup—at this target is that the smudge also contains one of the best characterized gravitationally lensed quasars. QSO 0957+561 makes up the bulk of the smudge. It’s 14 billion light years away, and there’s a time delay in the arrival of light from the two images, estimated at 400-500 days.
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Maybe whirlpool galaxy? its a super faint noisy smudge in my image i captured. but its visible.
I also captured bode's galaxy and cigar galaxy recently as well. (and a 3rd galaxy within the same view. but i dont know what that one is called)
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Do quasars count? I thought I was doing well when I imaged the Twin Quasar, QSO 0957+561, at 7.8 billion light years (light travel time, rather than co-moving distance). But then a couple of weeks later, I found that BZQ J1424+2256 was 11.9 billion light years away.

It boggles the mind that the photons I captured were already 2/3 of the way here when the Solar System and the Earth were forming!
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My most distant galaxies that I captured intentionally as galaxies would be Stephan's Quintet, at about 300 million light years. No doubt, I have accidentally captured non-target faint smudges that are farther.
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Since I do not image, I can only relate to visual observation. In that case for a galaxy, that would be (at this point) IC 1101 in Virgo at about 1.07 BLY, and as far as quasars go, that would be 3C 273, also in Virgo, about 2.4 BLY. The first one was with the 17.5 inch dob and the quasar with a 12 inch dob though its visible with less aperture. There is a big difference between observing such distant galaxies versus a quasar (the highly luminous active galactic nucleus of some very distant galaxies).
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Maybe not the farthest object .... At 1 billion light years, the galaxy IC 1101 is the largest single galaxy in the observable universe. This monster has a diameter of almost 4 million light years and it could easily engulf both our Milky Way galaxy and the Andromeda galaxy, which are separated by 2.5 million light years.

The posted image of IC 1101 was taken with my 12" SCT scope.

Luminance: 64 minutes, Red: 8 minutes, Green: 8 minutes, Blue: 12 minutes.

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Wow!

The farthest I got so far that I know about with my 6" scope is 138 million ly. I never imaged you could see something over a billion light years away in an amatuer scope
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I do not know for sure. When I stargaze most times I have no planned targets. I go in a circle up and down with my binoculars. A complete circle can take up to six hours, in which I observe all kinds of objects. The furthest that I definitely know of is M104/Sombrero galaxy, which is close to 30 million light years away. It looked something like this image, but a little dimmer in the middle. I used my Meade LX70 120mm f8 refractor under Bortle 4 skies. Oops Visualized.
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i just have to say i have a lot of images and that's a lot of time to plate solve and i probably won't get to it, but kudos for everyone who participates .
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