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Old 16-10-2015, 12:19 PM
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Distorted Southern Spiral Galaxy NGC289

Mike S did this one a few years back and I was impressed by this galaxy. I thought all the weird distorted ones were mostly Northern Hemisphere.

You can see how the companion galaxy has distorted what would otherwise be a well formed spiral galaxy somewhat like NGC6744.

10 hours 40 minutes. I may add to this tonight as its a dim one. Taken from my home observatory with a new revised processing approach which doesn't trash the stars!

AP Honders 305, SX Trius 694, AP1600GTO mount. 77% QE of the Trius and the F3.8 of the Honders have worked well here to show this "relatively" brightly as its a very dim galaxy.

http://www.pbase.com/gregbradley/image/161582355/large regular size

http://www.pbase.com/gregbradley/ima...82355/original large size

Crop view:

http://www.pbase.com/gregbradley/image/161582797/large regular size

http://www.pbase.com/gregbradley/ima...82797/original large size

Greg.
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