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Names ACO 2218, ABELL 2218, ZwCl 1635.4+6618
Right Ascension (2000.0) 16:35:52.4
Declination +66:12:52
Constellation Draco
Redshift (z) 0.17560 +/-
Heliocentric Radial Velocity 52644 +/- km/s
Distance (esteem) 2,530,000,000 light years
Date (DD/MM/YYYY) 06/04/2022-02/07/2022-21/03/2023
Exposure time 12,000 seconds (8 x 1500 exposures) with binning mode 1 x 1 and AO-7
CCD Camera SBIG ST-8XE
Telescope Meade Instruments Schmidt-Cassegrain 14" LX200 OTA on 10 Micron GM2000 HPS Mount
Focal length 3556 mm
Diameter 355.6 mm
Focal ratio 10
Field of View 13.3 x 8.9 arcminute
Original scale 0.522 arcsecond / pixel

Palomar Observatory Sky Survey images
POSS
Hubble Space Telescope
HST image

The foreground spiral galaxy is UGCA 413 with Redshift (z) equal to 0.02413 +/- 0.00007 and Heliocentric Radial Velocity of 7234 +/- 22 km/s so the extimated distance is 347,000,000 light years


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