NGC 1566 in Dorado

[kinetic (Steve)]

One of tonight's results, a cruise around Dorado.
NGC 1566 is a Seyfert galaxy with a very bright central
core.
Seeing started out very good tonight but dropped off after
midnight unfortunately.
This set was captured with 1566 between 41-45 deg up.

Steve

[MrB (Simon)]

Nice one Steve, those arms appear to extend quite some distance from the core.
Would like to see how much would be revealed going deeper, looks like it would almost fill the frame.

[strongmanmike (Michael)]

Yeh, it's a cool looking galaxy 1566 .

Mike

[kinetic (Steve)]

Originally Posted by MrB

Nice one Steve, those arms appear to extend quite some distance from the core.
Would like to see how much would be revealed going deeper, looks like it would almost fill the frame.

This Wiki shot shows exactly what I didn't get.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NGC_1566
I have only captured the brighter central two arms.
Not bad for 5 sec shots though.

Steve

[allan gould]

Steve
Nice shots for a total of just over 12 min of exposure. Any reason that you dont take longer subs?
Just starting to see the outer arms
Allan

[kinetic (Steve)]

Originally Posted by allan gould

Steve
Nice shots for a total of just over 12 min of exposure. Any reason that you dont take longer subs?
Just starting to see the outer arms
Allan

Unfortunately Allan, over 5 sec at this FL blurs stars on most nights.
On the most exceptional seeing nights , and if I stay at high
declinations to minimise PE, I can go 10-30secs.

Steve

[Hagar (Doug)]

Very nice Steve, 1566 is one I have never even looked at. I must have a go at this one when the weather clears a bit.

Well done Mate.

[renormalised (Carl)]

Nice shot there, Steve

Just to put things into perspective...at the given distance of 60Mly, the galaxy is 145,444 light years across at it's widest extent.

[kinetic (Steve)]

Thanks guys for the comments.

A repro with the 2x resample...process..sharpen...and resize back
routine applied.

A bit more detail in the outer ams without losing too much detail
from Noise reduction.

Steve

[dpastern (Dave Pastern)]

That's a nice shot Steve - good to see how much detail you can achieve with only 5 sec subs. Gives me hope ;-) I wouldn't worry about the comparison to the Spitzer/wiki shot either.

Dave

[spearo (Frank)]

well done
not an easy target
spiral arms are nicely defined
frank

[MrB (Simon)]

Nice repro Steve, looking forward to seeing what your next target is