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Old 28-11-2016, 10:45 AM
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Looking into a Seyfert galaxy in Horologium

Part of the Dorado group of galaxies, NGC 1433 is a modest sized 6' X 5' barred spiral galaxy with a double ring structure located in the southern constellation of Horologium.
At a modest distance of 30 million light years from Earth, it is a Seyfert galaxy with an active galactic nuclei. NGC 1433 is also known as PGC 13586 or (apparently..?) Miltron's Galaxy.

As is regularly the case and helped by the good seeing, my kit worked flawlessly all three nights and I didn't need to chuck a single sub frame of the 15.5hrs collected

NGC 1433 100% res close up crop

Full Frame

While not up to the standards of Cerro Tololo and Mt Lemmon et al...the Wallaroo seeing was relatively kind to me on two of the three nights (luckily both when I was gathering the 11 hours of luminance) and this galaxy exhibits mostly very fine structural features ..so I have made a comparison with HST to help identify what I have managed to differentiate deep within the galaxy.

Hubble Comparison

Hope you enjoy

Mike
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