Celestial Dance

[Ken Crawford]

NGC3227 Arp94 is a spiral galaxy that has an active super massive black hole in its core. It is interacting with a dwarf elliptical galaxy (NGC3226) resulting in the faint loops, arcs, and star streams that shows the path of the cosmic dance.

Dodging the bright nearby star in Leo was a bit of a challenge.

http://www.imagingdeepsky.com/Galaxies/NGC3227/NGC3227.htm

Thanks for taking the time to look,

Kindest Regards,

[marc4darkskies]

A beautiful and interesting image as always Ken! Striking detail too, given the small size of this object!

Cheers, Marcus

[rally]

Ken,

A Beauty !

Very interesting new star forming region that seems detached from the main Galaxy - seems to be at the branched intersection of the two upper left right star streams.
Might be worthy of an identification in its own right.

Cheers

Rally

[astroron]

Some action there alright Ken.
Beautiful image.
Cheers:thumbsup:

[allan gould]

Thats a beautiful and detailed image of a celestial smash-up. Really great shot as usual Ken.

[gregbradley]

Fantastic galaxy image Ken. You can easily see the path that orbiting galaxy has taken. Great processing as well.

Greg.

[strongmanmike]

Amazing looking galaxy, very nice job. Hard to imagine the time scales involved in creating such a complicated remnant....

Mike

[RobF]

Awe inspiring work. Thanks for sharing.

[cventer]

Stunning Image. Wow

[Ken Crawford]

Thanks so much for the encouragement! BTW - I hope you all have a great AAIC - it looks like it will be a special event. I will miss you all this time.

[Ross G]

A beautiful galaxy photo Ken.

The colour and detail are amazing.

Thanks.

Ross.

[SkyViking]

That's a fantastic image of a really nice target, with great detail and colours as usual. I always look forward to your images Ken, great work indeed.

[TrevorW]

Brilliant always interesting and a pleasure to view your images !!!

[dvj]

Beautiful work Ken!