After cruising the south pacific for Christmas
I came home to clear sunny skies and managed to put this together over three nights (only one was
totally clear though
)
This time of year sees many scopes and cameras trained on the LMC...well very nearby is this lovely galaxy NGC 1672 in Dorado which lies only about 5 deg from the edge of the LMC. Only modest in size at 6.75' X 5.75' it has a broad bright bar with a bright Seyfert typeII core with plenty of star burst activity going on around it. As is customary
...under a high contrast stretch, some very faint outer arms are revealed too
I installed some larger 36mm filters in the filterwheel to remove the small amount of vignetting I was getting with the smaller 1.25" filters and it did the trick
...so this is once again no darks and no flats and no gradient removal either, just to see what is possible
The seeing, while not terrible and some steady periods occured, was pretty average most of the time
Close up
The Full Frame
Faint outer arms
Happy New Year!
Mike