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Old 05-11-2019, 03:43 PM
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NGC 908 a Starburst galaxy in Cetus

Another beautiful but modest sized galaxy, part of our current galaxy season down under, NGC 908 is just 5.5' X 2.5' in apparent size and even a little smaller than NGC 1350, the subject of my last image, so luckily the seeing co-operated again to allow a decent view to be captured

Contrary to my usual habit of only doing it without a bright Moon in the sky, the RGB for this was captured under a first 1/4 Moon...but it still seems to have worked out ok

Unlike NGC 1350 in Fornax though, NGC 908 is classified as a starburst galaxy, so it has quite a bit going on and displays a wealth of colour and features.

NGC 908 in Cetus (click on image and scroll around with your cursor)

For a good scroll around the full resolution image, looking for faint fuzzies, go HERE, shrink it in your browser to fit your screen

To assist in identifying features captured in my data, Here is a comparison with a very high resolution image by the 8.2m VLT on Cerro Paranal in Chile

Hope you enjoy

Mike
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