PGC 49480 - what a little cutie!

[RickS]

How's this for a cute little galaxy. It's about 1.5 arcmin on the long axis. Found while processing an image of Hickson 68...

Cheers,
Rick.

[topheart]

A little honey-bun!

Thanks!
Tim

[dylan_odonnell]

Hehe it's pretty classic isn't it. Almost like a cartoon galaxy.

[Paul Haese]

That's an interesting looking galaxy. Some nice detail showing too.

[cometcatcher]

Careful. One could get aperture fever looking at that! ;)

[LewisM]

Not much apparent hydrogen in that one.

Beautiful little gal.

I always wanted to image the Propeller Galaxy. Might get around to it one day.

[RickS]

Thanks, guys! It's a member of the same group as the Hickson 68 galaxies but appears some distance away from the rest of the group.

The complete FOV is proving a PITA to process. There's a very bright star smack bang in the middle of the central cluster of galaxies.



Looks like a nice target but smallish, Lewis!

[strongmanmike]

Aaah a movie trailer just to wet our appetites huh? ;)

Yes, a very cool looking galaxy Rick...can't wait to see the final full field :thumbsup:

Mike

[RickS]

I hope I didn't blow all the good stuff in the trailer and there's something left for the rest of the movie, Mike :lol:

[Placidus]

Definitely.

[marco]

Ditto! As always I love the lovely color balance and saturation you get in your shots, top notch :thumbsup:

Regards
Marco

[RickS]

Glad you like it. Thanks, guys!

[Shiraz]

a wee ripper as they say - pity it is not closer.

[RickS]

Thanks, Ray. It would make a great target if it was NGC253 sized :)

[astronobob]

Nice cature & show Rick, Quite prominent arms in this one - looks Keool :thumbsup:

[Geoff45]

Nice Rick. Now if only you had a larger scope.....
Geoff

[RickS]

Thanks, Bob.

Ta, Geoff... if only :D I can't lift a bigger scope.

[Slawomir]

A perfect object/preview for testing effectiveness of various notice reduction methods ;)

[RickS]

I need to get back to this one, Slawomir! I have more data than time at present.

[Rex]

1.5 Arc minutes.....:scared: that's awesome for something so tiny.

[RickS]

We get some excellent seeing at SRO, Rex. Might be possible to do better once we finish tweaking the guiding.