[Stevec35 (Steve)]

Originally Posted by Ric

A very nice capture Steve.

I must agree it has a structure about it.

Thanks Ric

Originally Posted by Alchemy

Your bad is most peoples good.

Thanks Clive. I probably am a bit hard on myself sometimes.

Originally Posted by strongmanmike

Yeh, that's a great galaxy really and probably deserves more attention than its more famous nearby trio..?

Yep if your Lum is ok then RGB can be complete crap and you can still salvage something

Mike

Thanks Mike. Maybe I'll do a mosaic incorporating the other three sometime.

Originally Posted by madbadgalaxyman

Steve,

I enjoyed your image of N7552.

The nuclear region is good and intense, due to the effects of a very violent burst of star formation.
Radio and infrared observations plainly show a very tight (9 by 7 arcseconds) ring of supergiant star-formation regions surrounding the centre of this galaxy;
I am not sure how much of this would be visible in the optical regime, but probably the ring is well hidden due to the effects of dust extinction.

For those of you reading this thread who don't know the online version of the De Vaucouleurs Atlas of Galaxies, I note that there is a high resolution image of NGC 7552 at:

http://kudzu.astr.ua.edu/devatlas


There are a number of Hubble Space Telescope images of this galaxy available at http://hla.stsci.edu
so, "just for fun and profit", here is a preview, from this website, of an F439W (blue) image taken with the WFPC2 instrument on the HST:

Attachment 101017

Thanks for the comments and link. Obviously there are HST pictures of it but it appears no one has done a colour pretty picture yet.