NGC 1512 is a lovely ring galaxy with a prominent bar and companion galaxy in Horologium. It's quite modest in size with the main visible component around 9' X 5' and shines at Mag 11 with a low surface brightness of just 22.7 mag/squ arc sec
The cool thing is, I saw a Galaxy Evolution Explorer Satellite (GALEX) image taken in UV of NGC 1512 and it showed some otherwise invisible or almost invisible (in visible light) outer arms extending a long way form the galaxy plus a bit of a tangle of shorter faint arms, all looking like a complex history of interactions...and I thought hmm? I wonder what the AG12 could get with a bit of exposure time
Well here is the answer
NGC 1512
Inside the core
Comparison with GALEX satellite image (hopefully I'm not a deluded emperor this time
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Comparison with UK Schmidt
Well..at 10hrs it is almost Mega data Paul and since it was through a 12" at F3.8.. is probably equivalent to about 50+hrs through a 4" @ F8
and marks the longest exposure I have taken so far with the AG12
YAAAY 