[SkyViking (Rolf)]

Originally Posted by Stevec35

Well that's just excellent Rolf! Nothing much more I can say.

Cheers

Steve

Thank you Steve, glad you enjoyed it

Originally Posted by multiweb

Beautiful shot and very interesting read. Those tidally disrupted galaxies are always very interesting. I don't recall seeing anything like this one before. Great catch.

Thanks Marc, I find them interesting too and they are not particularly common targets for some reason.

Originally Posted by Larryp

Wonderful image!

Thank you Laurie

Originally Posted by David Fitz-Henr

Great image Rolf, and quite interesting to note the distant globulars in this image! Outstanding!

Thanks David, yes it's fascinating to imagine what those young globulars must be like.

Originally Posted by iceman

Very interesting, and beautiful image. Great to see more from you!

Thank you Mike, I hope the clouds will clear over here soon, now we are fortunately heading into the drier seasons.

Originally Posted by John Hothersall

Splendid work Rolf and great write up, great structural detail for a small galaxy seeing must have been reasonable to pick it up. Just love the needle spikes on the stars, refreshing to see new images revealing such an interesting past.

John.

Thanks very much John, the resolution was around 2.5 FWHM. Most of the data for this image was acquired during brief breaks in the cloud cover lasting just a single night every now and then. I find I get the best resolution when the clear pathces last for several days. So I have seen it better but it was not too bad really.

Originally Posted by marco

I agree with otehrs, beautiful image and great writing

Clear skies
Marco

Thanks very much Marco, I'm glad you enjoyed the read too

Originally Posted by FlashDrive

That's Amazing ..!!

Thanks Col

Originally Posted by stardust steve

very intriguing. Thanks for the great view.
I like that little guy sitting in the bottom right corner. Is it another Galaxy?

Thank you Steve, yes there are a lot of more distant background galaxies. There is a fairly prominent face-on spiral towards the bottom right. Also an interesting tight group in the very bottom left corner.

Originally Posted by Ross G

An amazing capture Rolf.

Ross.

Thank you Ross

Originally Posted by Ric

This is one I definitely haven't seen before.

Excellent capture Rolf

Thanks Ric, yes it was difficult to find any images of it other than the ESO image that appeared on APOD a couple of years ago. It's a pity really, I think it's a beautiful galaxy.