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Originally Posted by Lee
We get our fair share of clouds.... in fact it was cloudy all day yesterday, and I was planning on another TV evening, when all of a sudden at 7pm the clouds blew away.... doesn't happen often, and with no moon until 10.40 odd, couldn't waste it....
I'm going to look at the local astrometry.net server, so far the online one hasn't let me down though....
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Lee
I downloaded the astrometry solution files to my hard drive and followed the procedure to have SGPro solve using this if Elbrus fails. It's great as I don't need a network connection now. I find this will be excellent for plate solving at Astrofest as it will be belt and braces from now on it. Used V2.1.29 and it auto meridian flipped, reacquired the guide star, I had it do a sequence of three galaxies and it went to each, plate solved and put the center of the galaxy within 30 pixels in two center here operations. Plate solving and sequencing was perfect. Very happy with it.
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Originally Posted by SkyViking
A beautiful capture of a very interesting galaxy, well done. It's fascinating how the galaxy overall appears barred, but the central region seems clearly spiral shaped. Cool!
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Rolf
Saw this galaxy in the NGC catalogue and thought it looked interesting. Glad you liked it.
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Originally Posted by LewisM
Agree Rolf - it almost changed directions near the central region!
Must be some MASSIVE black hole activity going on in that one with some weird anomalous regions - really like the central black hole's influence stops at one point, where the shape of the arms thence changes abruptly.
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I agree it's interesting and I think we astrophotographers should seek new targets rather than the usual suspects for imaging.