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Old 16-09-2020, 09:42 AM
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IC 5332 - a super-faint but very tidy spiral

The exquisitely beautiful face-on spiral IC 5332 in Sculptor is ridiculously faint. The surface magnitude is about 23.7 per square arcsec, which is about two magnitudes fainter than a good dark sky. We were impressed by Joe Cauchi's image of this galaxy, and all the way up to astonished by Martin Pugh's. Few others have been brave enough to try it. Wikipedia mentions that there is not much star formation going on here. The galaxy should therefore not be so especially colourful, but instead should be rather subdued.

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Seeing was pretty ordinary going on terrible, and we don't have adaptive optics, so we don't come anywhere near Martin's rendition for detail, but we think the depth is there, and we've tried to be neutral to careful with the colour, rather than showing it as bright blue when it isn't.

Note the most unusual-looking galaxy toward top left of the big one. It seems to have a hole punched in it, reminiscent of NGC 247.

So far we have 12hrs 30 mins of luminance in 30 min subs, plus a total of 6 hours of RGB. Expecting a week of rain over new moon so this will do for now.

FLI PL16803 camera on 20 inch PlaneWave CDK. All control electronics, firmware, acquisition and processing software built or written by us in-house. That it works at all is a miracle.
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Old 16-09-2020, 10:09 AM
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Now that is an amazing field - sooooooo many galaxies, of all kinds to see!
Ina addition to the odd one you mentioned, there appears to be a pair of interacting galaxies at the edge of the frame at 2 o'clock.

The hero looks great, diaphinous and ethereal as you say it should.
Just wondering about the star colours though, they look a little "coloured in" at the cores?

Regardless, it's a great image - Nice work team!
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Old 16-09-2020, 10:19 AM
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I think Mr A. Powers said it best:

"Yeah baby"

Much Mojo in that one.
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Old 16-09-2020, 10:45 AM
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It's a nice rendering Mike. I did this faint sucker myself a few years back too. I did not collect as much as you simply because I gave up. I'll look forward to you further results.
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Old 16-09-2020, 02:29 PM
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Now that is an amazing field - sooooooo many galaxies, of all kinds to see!
Ina addition to the odd one you mentioned, there appears to be a pair of interacting galaxies at the edge of the frame at 2 o'clock.

The hero looks great, diaphinous and ethereal as you say it should.
Just wondering about the star colours though, they look a little "coloured in" at the cores?

Regardless, it's a great image - Nice work team!
Thanks so much Andy. We've had another good look at the stars, and they are as you describe. Silly processing error - trying to do colour balance on an already burned out star core. That is fixable. But the big problem is noise. We need another night dedicated to RGB.

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I think Mr A. Powers said it best:

"Yeah baby"

Much Mojo in that one.
Thanks Peter, that's encouraging.

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It's a nice rendering Mike. I did this faint sucker myself a few years back too. I did not collect as much as you simply because I gave up. I'll look forward to you further results.
Thanks Paul. Perhaps we'll get a couple nights of better seeing next new moon. The beastie will be around for quite a while. it's such a nice galaxy (and such an interesting deep field) that it's worth another go.

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Old 16-09-2020, 02:39 PM
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Always like a good portly face on spiral galaxy, even a faint one You're right, this one is not tackled very often by deep sky imagers even though it is a very interesting and shapely example

Yeah but blue looks good and there are a few HII lumps scattered around the arms, so while not a lot, at least some star forming is going on at least

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Old 16-09-2020, 03:16 PM
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Yes it is faint. I have imaged this one as well - 12 hours too.

I like your colour of the galaxy itself. Those knots in the arms may be globs?

Lots of background galaxies as well.

Another galaxy similar to this one is NGC1232 which is up now as well.

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Old 16-09-2020, 06:24 PM
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Super effort that !
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Old 16-09-2020, 07:50 PM
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Very nice M&T,

Curious to what the blob is at 10-11 o'clock??

And one day I'll get diffraction spikes like yours...

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Old 16-09-2020, 08:22 PM
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The thumbnail really doesn't do the full field justice, so many galaxies smattered throughout the field. Very nicely done M&T! The distorted galaxy around 10:30 in the central field fascinates me.
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Fantastic M&T! About as close to a Hubble deep field as an amateur image can get.
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Old 17-09-2020, 08:05 AM
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Very cool M&T!
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Old 17-09-2020, 07:40 PM
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Always like a good portly face on spiral galaxy, even a faint one You're right, this one is not tackled very often by deep sky imagers even though it is a very interesting and shapely example

Yeah but blue looks good and there are a few HII lumps scattered around the arms, so while not a lot, at least some star forming is going on at least

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Cheers Mike. One day we must have a go in H-alpha.

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Yes it is faint. I have imaged this one as well - 12 hours too.

I like your colour of the galaxy itself. Those knots in the arms may be globs?

Lots of background galaxies as well.

Another galaxy similar to this one is NGC1232 which is up now as well.

Greg.
Thanks Greg. We will have a look for NGC 1232.

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Thanks David.

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Very nice M&T,

Curious to what the blob is at 10-11 o'clock??

And one day I'll get diffraction spikes like yours...

DT
We're presuming the blob is a tidally disrupted galaxy. Colin thinks so too - see below.

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The thumbnail really doesn't do the full field justice, so many galaxies smattered throughout the field. Very nicely done M&T! The distorted galaxy around 10:30 in the central field fascinates me.
Thanks Colin! Think of the forces involved. Best to keep our thumbs out of the way.

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Fantastic M&T! About as close to a Hubble deep field as an amateur image can get.
Thanks very much Simon. Glad you like it.

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Very cool M&T!
Thanks Marc. We are much encouraged.

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Old 17-09-2020, 07:59 PM
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Superb. I like the perfectly formed spirals that go all the way to the core of the galaxy.
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Old 18-09-2020, 06:42 AM
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Sub zero cool.
One for the extension room.
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Old 19-09-2020, 04:41 AM
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Superb. I like the perfectly formed spirals that go all the way to the core of the galaxy.

Thanks Rodney. It is pretty.


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One for the extension room.

Thanks Marc! And the extension room even has a view of the tiny pool.
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Old 19-09-2020, 11:09 AM
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Man, that one does look faint. Awesome job guys and thanks for sharing, don't think I've seen this field before.
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Old 20-09-2020, 05:59 PM
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Man, that one does look faint. Awesome job guys and thanks for sharing, don't think I've seen this field before.
Thanks Lee, that's kind.
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Crikey! So much weird stuff going on around a really spectacular galaxy.
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Awesome galaxy shot there!
Well done!
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