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Old 19-11-2014, 10:54 PM
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A Galaxy in a Furnace

Ok corny name I know... but I always think of a furnace (Fornax) when looking at this galaxy, right from the first time I went scouting around in Fornax and found this spectacular (many say the most spectacular) barred spiral galaxy, I wondered how anybody could possibly make out a furnace in the nondescript faint stars that make up this constellation ...oh well

Anyway, t'is a Mini Data image just (over) a miserly 6hrs total and all collected in one night Seeing could have been better but it wasn't terrible and some frames were taken through high cloud ... oh and like my recent NGC 247 I actually used flats for this shot

Full Frame

Closer up

Enjoy (yes I know, a slight bit of noise in the background but...hey, it doesn't concern me besides smoothing further just looked a bit fake)
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