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Old 14-04-2018, 02:14 PM
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shredding the centaur.

Fourcade-Figuero Object.
I took a cheeky hour of luminance on this in between cloud bands on Tuesday, and was pleasantly surprised to see anything at all from Perth light pollution central. So last night I did a 6 hour run of LRGB. From the look of the subs some high clouds came through around midnight, but generally it worked out pretty well.
Discovered in 1970 in Chile, this is a streak of stars that has been ejected from NGC5128. The interaction that caused this happened 500 million years ago, and although the galaxy is only 13 million light years away, this galactic 'sneeze' has already crossed a surprising distance in the night sky - about 3 degrees. I've seen this object through my 25" and it was very faint, but detectable. I'm not sure if the lumpiness in the background is light pollution gradients or galactic cirrus.
The other blob at about 10 o'clock is ESO270-18 (the FFO is 270-17) and I can't find a single reference via Aladin on it, not even a redshift measurement, but the paper I found on the F-FO suggests it might be associated with the same event.
Anyway - astrobin link is:
https://www.astrobin.com/341578/
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Old 14-04-2018, 02:30 PM
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Top shot Andrew, very cool

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That an interesting find there Andrew!
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Excellent catch, Andrew!
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An interesting object very well imaged.

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Old 14-04-2018, 05:51 PM
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Something wonderfully new! Excellent research and great capture.
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Very interesting Andrew. Nice catch and a good story!

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Wonderful!!
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Old 16-04-2018, 11:33 PM
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Wonderful!!
Cheers,
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Thanks Tim - I honestly thought this would be out of my reach.

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Very interesting Andrew. Nice catch and a good story!

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Thanks Mark - I've been fascinated by this thing for a few years.
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Bravo!
Thanks Clive! How are the skies up north?
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Something wonderfully new! Excellent research and great capture.
THanks MIke and Trish - I'd love to see what your scope in your skies could do with this!
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An interesting object very well imaged.

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Thanks Steve
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Excellent catch, Andrew!
Cheers Rick I thought I'd take a break from the sky-candy :-)
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That an interesting find there Andrew!
Thanks Colin!
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Top shot Andrew, very cool

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