NGC1365 in Fornax

[bloodhound31]

NGC1365 is a barred spiral galaxy in the constellation Fornax, approximately 56 million light-years away. This is a four hour, 20 minute exposure captured last night at ASIGN Observatory.

The blue regions in the spiral arms indicate a strong density wave of hot, active star-growth and a fast rotation.

Taken with Skywatcher Black Diamond ED120 and Orion Starshoot Pro III Colour CCD
Autoguided on an EQ6 mount.

Captured and stacked in MaxIm DL Essentials
PP in Photoshop Elements 6

13 Subs of 20 minutes each
Calibrated with 10 x 20 minute darks, 10 x 0.04 Sec Flats and 0.04 sec Flat Darks.

It's times like these pretty little galaxies that I wish I had a bigger aperture and a longer focal length!

Baz.

[renormalised (Carl)]

Need that ED 120 piggybacking a 16" or larger, mate. Save up and grab an RCOS scope

Nice shot, BTW

[bloodhound31]

Originally Posted by renormalised

Need that ED 120 piggybacking a 16" or larger, mate. Save up and grab an RCOS scope

Nice shot, BTW

Have you been reading my mind lately Carl?

That's EXACTLY what I want!!

Baz.

[bmitchell82 (Brendan)]

nice work, this is definately a nice little galaxy, might try and get a shot at it with the 10" barlowed to f9.4 should fill the field nicely

[toryglen-boy (Duncan)]

lovely image Baz, thanks for sharin'

[Hagar (Doug)]

Nice image of this little galaxy Baz. You have quite a few little galaxies in the image to peruse. Always nice to see a nice field of galaxies like this.

Well done.

[bloodhound31]

Thanks Brendan and Duncan.

Baz.

[renormalised (Carl)]

Originally Posted by bloodhound31

Have you been reading my mind lately Carl?

That's EXACTLY what I want!!

Baz.

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