Ngc1398

[gregbradley]

This is the last one for a bit I swear!

I took this one as I liked the fact it was an unusual looking galaxy.
Its really a faint fuzzy though.

4 hours, LRGB.

http://www.pbase.com/gregbradley/image/109635968

Greg.

[renormalised (Carl)]

Great image there, Greg

Notice the two rings of star formation and the bar across the nucleus. Very bright nucleus too...even for ab sized nuclei. It is listed amongst a couple of studies of Seyfert galaxies, but I don't think it's one itself. SIMBAD doesn't list it as such.

It's only a small galaxy too...40,779ly across.

[gregbradley]

Interesting data. Thanks for that. Yes it does seem smallish but sometimes that is hard to tell as it may have been further away.

Greg.

Originally Posted by renormalised

Great image there, Greg

Notice the two rings of star formation and the bar across the nucleus. Very bright nucleus too...even for ab sized nuclei. It is listed amongst a couple of studies of Seyfert galaxies, but I don't think it's one itself. SIMBAD doesn't list it as such.

It's only a small galaxy too...40,779ly across.

[renormalised (Carl)]

I have its distance as 19.81Mpc. It's long axis is 7.079' or 424.6".