[Paul Haese]

Originally Posted by strongmanmike

That's a nice capture Paul, looks like a mini NGC 253

Mike

Thanks Mike, I agree it does look a little like NGC253. Though I was not looking at the streamers coming up from the disk. I meant the streams along the arm plain right and left of the galaxy. It is just faint but can be seen.

Originally Posted by astroron

Nice image Paul,I too like the background galaxies
very aesthetically pleasing.
More like NGC7331 Mike Sidonio
BTW I have just been discussing galaxies with tidal tails to nowhere with David Eicher editor of "Astronomy magazine".
A paper produced by David Martinez Delgado makes very interesting reading.
https://arxiv.org/pdf/1804.03330.pdf...s772RJsjL5OpF8
Cheers

Thanks for the link Ron, and the suggestion of another imaging target. Mind you it is bit far north for me.

Originally Posted by Placidus

That image was a joy to explore.

Beautiful colour in the main beastie.

We can see what we guess are the rising streamers too.

Thanks Mike, I noted the streamers early on wondered what other surprises it held. The tidal streams were an interesting surprise.

Originally Posted by markas

Nice shot, Paul. Lots of other galaxies in the background add interest. (do I detect a satellite track on the higher res image?)


Mark

Thanks Mark but that is a diffraction spike from the out of field star. I mentioned this in my post.

Originally Posted by codemonkey

Nice one Paul! :-)

I did this one last year with ok results, but yours is deeper. In mine you can't really see more than a hint of the background galaxies, but yours does a better job with that. There's an amazing CHART32 image that got an APOD in 2016 which shows the background is absolutely littered with little galaxies.

I'm on some other targets at the moment, but you've inspired me to add some more data to last year's effort once I'm done with those, should the sky gods agree.

Thanks Lee, perhaps your image was the reason why I put it on my list. I did wonder why I had it there. Many times I add objects when I see someone image them here. So you are probably the impetus to me imaging it. It's all circular.

The Chart 32 image is spectacular, but you get that at altitude and with great seeing.