Part of the Dorado group of galaxies, NGC 1433 is a modest sized 6' X 5' barred spiral galaxy with a double ring structure located in the southern constellation of Horologium.
At a modest distance of 30 million light years from Earth, it is a Seyfert galaxy with an active galactic nuclei. NGC 1433 is also known as PGC 13586 or (apparently..?) Miltron's Galaxy.
As is regularly the case and helped by the good seeing, my kit worked flawlessly all three nights and I didn't need to chuck a single sub frame of the 15.5hrs collected
While not up to the standards of Cerro Tololo and Mt Lemmon et al...the Wallaroo seeing was relatively kind to me on two of the three nights (luckily both when I was gathering the 11 hours of luminance) and this galaxy exhibits mostly very fine structural features ..so I have made a comparison with HST to help identify what I have managed to differentiate deep within the galaxy.
Nice colour Mike. Not over the top super saturated stuff. This porridge is just right...
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Originally Posted by Stevec35
Nicely done Mike. It looks very like NGC 1097
Cheers
Steve
Cheers guys...and glad you liked the porridge little bear and Steve, I agree, definitely some similarities with 1097. Actually there are quite a few similar ring Seyfert galaxies out there.
Another off the beaten track target, Mike? I haven't seen that one before. Expertly captured and processed, as we'd expect
Cheers,
Rick.
Thanks Rick ..it's funny, there are just so many amazing and or cool and beautiful things to shoot up there. I think many find themselves thinking that the popular targets (and I have shot my fair share of'em ) are the only ones worth shooting...when they clearly aren't
Geez, thats good Mike, the detail towards the core is excellent and the colour is excellent too. Thats a lot of exposure time for RGB, paid off. Cant see any diff with the HST pic, dont know why they bother with it.
Geez, thats good Mike, the detail towards the core is excellent and the colour is excellent too. Thats a lot of exposure time for RGB, paid off. Cant see any diff with the HST pic, dont know why they bother with it.
Thanks for checking her out guys, glad it was worth a look..and Fred, I agree, meah!.. Hubble Shmubble ... Seriously though, when we lowly Earth bound mortals expose through our wonderfully fresh and life giving but pea soup atmosphere...it is nice to kinda try and gauge what we have actually captured..aaand what we haven't....although you can see the HII regions in mine at least
Thanks for checking her out guys, glad it was worth a look..and Fred, I agree, meah!.. Hubble Shmubble ... Seriously though, when we lowly Earth bound mortals expose through our wonderfully fresh and life giving but pea soup atmosphere...it is nice to kinda try and gauge what we have actually captured..aaand what we haven't....although you can see the HII regions in mine at least
Mike
Not only H2 regions but also dark lines of cooler galactic dust that block the stars behind them
Very beautiful and well photographed. The symmetry (and slight departure from symmetry) is lovely, as is the sharp and accurate capture of the intriguing ring of dust. And the important bright centre is not burned out!
) are the only ones worth shooting...when they clearly aren't 
jokes aside.....great galaxy shot Mike
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