This is the latest image out of Clayton Observatories. It is a deep view of NGC55 and the galaxies in the background. The image contains 46 hours of data on this often imaged galaxy. There are literally hundreds of galaxies within the field (see all the tiny orange fuzzy dots) as well as the ones that a less distant. The main galaxy shows dust lanes and clumps of blue stars.
This galaxy is a Megallanic type barred spiral about 6.5 million light years from Earth and is quite unusual in that it has a lot of hydrogen gas within its grasp. I gathered a lot of data in hydrogen alpha (around 29 hours) which has shown a lot of knots and loops of gas within and along the galaxy. I have included it for your viewing pleasure. It took at least 20 hours before the gas loops really started showing up well. I could go on collecting endlessly but I doubt I'll get much worthwhile data under 100 hours.
Click here for full colour image with hydrogen alpha.
Click here for just hydrogen alpha data.
I hope you enjoy the images as much I have in taking them and processing them.