[richardo (Rich)]

Originally Posted by gregbradley

Another sensational image.

That is a wonderful 1097. You got 2 of the 3 tidal streams there. There is another fainter jet on the bottom right to be gotten that is very very faint.

Greg.

Thanks Greg! Yes was happy to see those jets even in the single exposures..
The others, 3 & 4 are definitely super faint.. I'll have to increase my exposure lengths next time to get them down..

Originally Posted by madbadgalaxyman

That is a good and deep image, Rich.

The unusual optically-luminous material near to the small peculiar lenticular (type S0) Companion Galaxy is extremely well shown.

A lot of these bright southern galaxies are only now getting imaging done at the depth that had been achieved for prominent northern galaxies in the past.

I am sure that there are discoveries to be made in imagery as deep as yours.

The little S0 galaxy is, in itself, an unusual object, as can be seen in the images of NGC 1097 at www.eso.org

Thanks for the nice comments and info Robert!..
I do try to keep an comparative eye open when I look at what others have done on these galaxies... just incase there's a SN ..
I missed out on one by a day.. but that was quite a strange one as it went off in between two nebulas.

Originally Posted by astroron

Rich,lovely image I observed 1097 a couple of nights ago with my 16" scope as part of my Supenova search .
Ngc 1097A is the Dwarf elliptical galaxy at 42.000 light years from the center of NGC1097,it was like a fuzzy stellar blob but on nights of good seeing is quite a bright object.
Cheers

Hi Ron and thank you!
It would look great through the eye piece on a nice big scope and dark skies for sure....
Good luck with your SN searches!

Originally Posted by RobF

Heck Rich, what a stunner. Job very well done there.
When I stop to think about exactly what it is that appeals so much I think it's the the subtle warm colours you've achieved in the centre showing great dust detail, but also the blues in the outer arms - wonderful to see a quality image that brings out bluish hues in a galaxy!

Thanks for sharing.

Cheers for that Rob!
Putting in the time on colour helped me saturate it while using the lum to add plenty of highlights.
I was surprised there is so much new star activity along the arms of this galaxy.

Originally Posted by John Hothersall

Getting those jets is very impressive indeed and colours are just amazing.

John.

Hi John, thanks for that!
The clarity wasn't all that great on the first couple of nights so was happy enough with the result in the lum after teasing more details out.. the colour came together nicely which made processing fairly straight forward.

Thanks again all for your nice comments.

All the best
Rich