Ngc1313

[Paul Haese]

This is a really weird looking galaxy, often known as the Topsy Turvy galaxy and for good reason. The galaxy looks like it is being torn apart and upside down. There is clearly a lot of star formation going on with several regions of nebulosity present. It looks as though the galaxy has gone through a recent merger.

Also of interest is the intervening cirrus in the foreground. Plenty of clumps can be seen within the field of view.

There appears to be a large cluster of galaxies of into the distance up and to left of NGC1313.

The image is an integration of 16.6 hours of LHaRGB. Subs were 20 minutes for the Ha, 10 minutes for the luminance and 5 minutes for the colour.

Click here for larger resolution image.

Hope you enjoy the view.

[PeterM]

Lovely image Paul, wonderful in color though i'm more used to 30 second monochrome images. Now you did check it for SN?

[Placidus (Mike and Trish)]

Wonderful.

Oh for a working camera.

[Peter Ward]

A top tier result for sure. Nice one

[marc4darkskies (Marcus)]

An excellent image Paul!

[willik (Willik)]

Very nice Paul
Your images all ways looks good with detail and colour and
not over done.
Martin

[Octane (Humayun)]

That is truly beautiful. Excellent work, Paul.

H

[Stevec35 (Steve)]

Very nice work Paul!

Steve

[gregbradley]

I really like this image Paul. Nice tight stars, great Ha detail and structure of this not often imaged galaxy.

Great stuff.

Greg.

[Martin Pugh]

I would say this is one of your finest images in a while.

Great colour, Ha blended beautifully.

cheers
Martin

[RickS (Rick)]

I really like this one too, Paul.

[Joshua Bunn (Joshua)]

Very interesting subject there Paul, nicely done... always look forward to viewing your images.
Josh

[Paul Haese]

Thanks guys for the comments.

Originally Posted by Placidus

Wonderful.

Oh for a working camera.

Thank Mike and Trish; I know your pain all too well. I hope you get the camera back in working order quickly now.

Originally Posted by gregbradley

I really like this image Paul. Nice tight stars, great Ha detail and structure of this not often imaged galaxy.

Great stuff.

Greg.

Thanks Greg, I found there were only a few images of this object and most of them were professional ones. The Atacama image recently appears to be the only other one on this forum. It's a really interesting object and is made all the more interesting by the cirrus in between us and the galaxy.

Originally Posted by PeterM

Lovely image Paul, wonderful in color though i'm more used to 30 second monochrome images. Now you did check it for SN?

Thanks Peter I had a cursory look on my charts but could not find anything that looks out of the ordinary. Does it produce a lot of SN?

[markas (Mark)]

Very nice image, Paul. It certainly is a weird object!

Mark

[atalas]

Hi Paul

I did comment on this shot but I see It got sucked down a black hole.

Anyway,awesome work dude

[clive milne]

Oh yeah... top shelf paul.

[Paul Haese]

Thanks Mark and Clive for your comments.

Originally Posted by atalas

Hi Paul

I did comment on this shot but I see It got sucked down a black hole.

Anyway,awesome work dude

I did see your comment Louie, thanks for huge compliment.

[PeterM]

Originally Posted by Paul Haese

Thanks guys for the comments.

Thanks Peter I had a cursory look on my charts but could not find anything that looks out of the ordinary. Does it produce a lot of SN?

Hi Paul,

It has produced 2 Supernova
1978K was an ultra luminous SN at mag 16
https://arxiv.org/abs/1612.09473

1962M got to mag 11.7

So great galaxy for SN hunting.

Mate have a great Christmas!

[Slawomir (Suavi)]

I really like this image Paul. Colours are very well balanced and non-intrusive processing is done really skilfully. Top shelf

[joelshort (Joel)]

That's an impressive image Paul.