jjjnettie
09-09-2013, 09:22 AM
Boy, this is one faint galaxy.
This is 2hrs and 15 minutes of subs, 13x10, 1x5, and I've squeezed just about all I can out of this set of data.
I'll definitely be adding more onto this interesting galaxy.
I managed to catch another hour of data last night and gee it's made a difference to the overall quality of the image.
See second image. :D
A bit of info from Wiki..
NGC 1291, also known as NGC 1269, is a ring galaxy with an unusual inner bar and outer ring structure located about 33 million light-years away in the constellation Eridanus. It was discovered by James Dunlop in 1826 and subsequently entered into the New General Catalog as NGC 1291 by Johan Ludvig Emil Dreyer. John Herschel then observed the same object in 1836 and entered it into the catalog as NGC 1269 without realizing that it was a duplicate. This galaxy was cited as an example of a "transitional galaxy" by NASA's Galaxy Evolution Explorer team in 2007.
This is 2hrs and 15 minutes of subs, 13x10, 1x5, and I've squeezed just about all I can out of this set of data.
I'll definitely be adding more onto this interesting galaxy.
I managed to catch another hour of data last night and gee it's made a difference to the overall quality of the image.
See second image. :D
A bit of info from Wiki..
NGC 1291, also known as NGC 1269, is a ring galaxy with an unusual inner bar and outer ring structure located about 33 million light-years away in the constellation Eridanus. It was discovered by James Dunlop in 1826 and subsequently entered into the New General Catalog as NGC 1291 by Johan Ludvig Emil Dreyer. John Herschel then observed the same object in 1836 and entered it into the catalog as NGC 1269 without realizing that it was a duplicate. This galaxy was cited as an example of a "transitional galaxy" by NASA's Galaxy Evolution Explorer team in 2007.