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gregbradley
28-02-2009, 12:37 PM
This is the last one for a bit I swear!

I took this one as I liked the fact it was an unusual looking galaxy.
Its really a faint fuzzy though.

4 hours, LRGB.

http://www.pbase.com/gregbradley/image/109635968

Greg.
renormalised
28-02-2009, 01:09 PM
Great image there, Greg:)

Notice the two rings of star formation and the bar across the nucleus. Very bright nucleus too...even for ab sized nuclei. It is listed amongst a couple of studies of Seyfert galaxies, but I don't think it's one itself. SIMBAD doesn't list it as such.

It's only a small galaxy too...40,779ly across.
gregbradley
28-02-2009, 01:23 PM
Interesting data. Thanks for that. Yes it does seem smallish but sometimes that is hard to tell as it may have been further away.

Greg.
renormalised
28-02-2009, 01:25 PM
I have its distance as 19.81Mpc. It's long axis is 7.079' or 424.6".