The Mixed Streams of NGC1055

[Ken Crawford]

Hello,

I am sorry about the long post. but I am very excited about releasing this image as it represents my first real contribution to science. A couple of years ago I was asked to join an international group of astrophysicists and professional astronomers led by Dr. David Martinez-Delgado of the Max-Planck Institute for Astronomy in Heidelberg, Germany. What is rare about this team is that a few of the team members are amateur astronomers like me. The coordinator of this small team is my good friend R Jay Gabany who does incredible work from his remote observatory in New Mexico. He is the first amateur star stream hunter to be published. Our function is to take deep images of galaxies, looking for the fossil remnants of galaxy cannibalism called star streams.

http://www.imagingdeepsky.com/Galaxies/NGC1055/NGC1055.htm

Here is a direct link about the pilot galaxy survey:

http://www.cosmotography.com/images/stellar_stream_survey_overview.html

Thanks for taking the time to look . . .

Kindest Regards,
Ken Crawford

[TrevorW]

Another fine image

superb colours and definition

[bokglob]

Congratulations Ken. Living the dream for sure!:lol:, and deservedly so. breathtaking image,absolutly top shelf:thumbsup::thumbsup::thumbsup:

[multiweb]

Fascinating work you guys do. Great picture too. :thumbsup:

[renormalised]

Great shot, Ken :)

Good to see some amateur contributions to professional work :)

[astroron]

Great image :) Is it just a coincidence that today's APOD is linked to this project. http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/astropix.html
Great to see Amateur Professional co operation:thumbsup:

[Ken Crawford]

Thanks for the kind words, you are a wise man - yes Jerry is running one of Jay's images today showing another type of star stream. Jay is at McDonald observatory with David (lead investigator) trying to collect more data for the star stream team but clouds are in the way :(

I have several more images to post from the survey myself :)

Ken Crawford

[JD2439975]

Ken, another jaw-dropper of an image, just superb.

Easy to see why the pros can use this data for "serious science", something to be proud of for sure. :thumbsup:

[richardo]

Ground breaking work Ken, nice to be able to back up theory.
And who said astro photography was just doing pretty pictures :rolleyes:!

Nice razor sharp image as well.

Congrats with your contribution work.

Rich

[Paul Haese]

Truly incredible image Ken. The image looks 3D like I am just viewing this galaxy from a million light years or so and heading into the galaxy. The sharpening is to superb, star colours and colours of the galaxy are excellent. Something to aspire to for sure.:eyepop:

[Martin Pugh]

Beautiful work Ken.

Martin

[strongmanmike]

Very interesting and ground breaking result Ken.

Not much resolution there though huh?...not! :eyepop:

Mike

[duncan]

Truly stunning image. What else can i say.:eyepop:
Cheers,
Duncan:)

[tornado33]

Lovely image. Co incidentally the Newcastle Astronomical society had an excellent talk by Geraint F. Lewis (http://www.physics.usyd.edu.au/~gfl/) of a similar project called The Pan-Andromeda Archaeological Survey ,PAndAS (https://www.astrosci.ca/users/alan/PANDAS/Home.html) where they imaged incredibly faint star streams linking M31 and M33.