The faint "Jets" of galaxy NGC 1097

[multiweb (Marc)]

Another corker. Love the colors you get in your galaxy shots. You've got the process down pat.

[LewisM]

How rude of us to not wish a lady her KNOWN 223rd birthday.

HAPPY BELATED BIRTHDAY 1097

(Herschel discovered it on 9 Oct 1790)

[Stevec35 (Steve)]

That's a great NGC1097 Mike. Well done!

Cheers

Steve

[astronobob (Bob)]

Far-out ! You Captured that elusive 4th jet, mighty credit to ya on that, the whole image is fantastic & must be great to attempt such challanging targets with results Mike, Awesome to see. Good Onya

[strongmanmike (Michael)]

Originally Posted by multiweb

Another corker. Love the colors you get in your galaxy shots. You've got the process down pat.

Originally Posted by LewisM

How rude of us to not wish a lady her KNOWN 223rd birthday.

HAPPY BELATED BIRTHDAY 1097

(Herschel discovered it on 9 Oct 1790)

Originally Posted by Stevec35

That's a great NGC1097 Mike. Well done!

Cheers

Steve

Originally Posted by astronobob

Far-out ! You Captured that elusive 4th jet, mighty credit to ya on that, the whole image is fantastic & must be great to attempt such challanging targets with results Mike, Awesome to see. Good Onya

Thanks for looking guys and glad you liked it

I wonder if Ms Herschel could see the jets

Mike

[naskies (Dave)]

Originally Posted by strongmanmike

I wonder if Ms Herschel could see the jets

With a surface magnitude of 26.4 (R) and 27.0 (B) for the dogleg, I'd hazard a guess that would be a "no"...

[strongmanmike (Michael)]

Originally Posted by naskies

With a surface magnitude of 26.4 (R) and 27.0 (B) for the dogleg, I'd hazard a guess that would be a "no"...

Yeah and that's the brightest of the four jets too jet 3 and especially 4 must be closer to 30 mag/squ/arc sec, amazing...seems a 12" scope today can go deeper in about 4 hrs than a 150" telescope could in 1.5hrs back in 1979

Mike

[naskies (Dave)]

Originally Posted by strongmanmike

Yeah and that's the brightest of the four jets too jet 3 and especially 4 must be closer to 30 mag/squ/arc sec, amazing...seems a 12" scope today can go deeper in about 4 hrs than a 150" telescope could in 1.5hrs back in 1979

Mike

Here are some published photometric measurements for surface magnitude:

R1: Blue=26.2, Visual=25.7
R1 dogleg: B=26.6, V=26.0
R2: B=26.7, V=26.2
R4: B=27.6

These are just the peak surface magnitudes - most of jets' area would be fainter than that, as you predict. The paper says that the R1 and R2 jets are blue in colour near 1097, but they couldn't measure any colours further out or in the dogleg.

I'd argue that the R4 jet is teetering just below the noise limit of your image (I couldn't see it at all even with the label at first; but now having read a few papers and studied some deep images I think I can see it... hmmm).

Getting down to mag 26-27 with 8 hours of imaging is bloody impressive Are you suuuuure you don't want to go mega-data on this?

[lazjen (Chris)]

Very nice. I like it.

[strongmanmike (Michael)]

Originally Posted by naskies

Getting down to mag 26-27 with 8 hours of imaging is bloody impressive

And that was without flats or darks to boot

Are you suuuuure you don't want to go mega-data on this?

I did consider it for sure but as mentioned... got bored

[Nicola (Nicola)]

Probably a little bit magenta shift, but the detail is super.

[strongmanmike (Michael)]

Originally Posted by Nicola

Probably a little bit magenta shift, but the detail is super.

Ah yes Nicola the Universe is indeed purple

[alpal]

There is an APOD today of these NGC 1097 jets from Martin Pugh:

http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap131114.html

[Paul Haese]

Yep Martin showed me this about a week ago. Stunning detail up close.

[dvj (John)]

Martin's image made APOD today. It's interesting to covert it to grayscale, invert and stretch.

[Geoff45 (Geoff)]

Great shot Mike. Another one on my to-do list.
Geoff

[alpal]

Was it Mike who gave Martin the idea to image the jets?

[gregbradley]

Originally Posted by alpal

Was it Mike who gave Martin the idea to image the jets?

We do tend to inspire each other with good target choices but this one has been imaged in the past by several. I imaged this myself several years ago and captured 2 of the jets with a Tak BRC250 F5 and Microline 8300 camera from my dark site.

Greg.

[strongmanmike (Michael)]

Originally Posted by ghsmith45

Great shot Mike. Another one on my to-do list.
Geoff

Cheers Geoff

As lovely as it is, not really quite sure on the relevance of Martins image in this thread...