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Estimated to be 15–25 million years old, NGC 1569-B is a YMC in the dwarf irregular galaxy NGC 1569, located some 6,000 light years away from the Earth.
That puts it inside the MW. It's a 12th magnitude galaxy in Cameleopardalis millions of parsecs/ light years away.
-Michael Refractors: ES AR152 f/6.5 Achromat on Twilight II, Celestron 102mm XLT f/9.8 on Celestron Heavy Duty Alt Az mount, KOWA 90mm spotting scope Binoculars: Celestron SkyMaster 15x70, Bushnell 10x50 Eyepieces: Various, GSO Superview, 9mm Plossl, Celestron 25mm Plossl Camera: ZWO ASI 120 Naked Eye: Two Eyeballs Latitude: 48.7229° N