[Placidus (Mike and Trish)]

Glorious. Quite inspiring.

I had only just been reading today about that central ring of star formation in this very galaxy being fed by material falling through the bar into the central black hole in the rather good book Galaxy by James Geach at Univ Hertfordshire.

The resolution in your image is astonishing. Probably three times what we had achieved in our attempt. We were mostly trying to get the jets using lots of 2x2 binned subs. Our small amount of (3 x 1hr) unbinned data is already burned out, even in the raw subs straight out of the camera (see attached). The detail in your nucleus and surrounding "gas ring" of star formation is far superior to ours. Well done!

Best,
Mike