A popular target this time of year...here is my take on this amazing galaxy
I always thought this galaxy was kind of a bit boring to image
...unless of course the sky gods bless you with good seeing conditions, well
then you can peer right into this edge on galaxy and see lots of stuff!
Taken over three nights, two of which were very steady, this is a pretty deep look at this baby, there is quite an extensive array of distant galaxies spread out right across the image and also a rather prominent outer halo envelopes the galaxy and few other images out there have revealed this, so that is pretty cool
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At about the size of the full Moon, it is actually quite a large angular size on the sky and although I thought I had framed her perfectly to fit it all in, the very faintest extensions in fact extend a little further off the right side of this 38 arc min wide field of view
The seeing was good enough that no deconvolution was used on this either
...but several beers were consumed during image acquisition..errr
and during processing
Capture details under the image:
NGC 55 - A cigar in Space (click on image and use your cursor to surf around)
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