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Peculiar Galaxies Arp 1 and Arp 285 356 viewsOriginally published in 1966, The Atlas of Peculiar Galaxies is a catalogue of peculiar galaxies produced by Halton Arp. You would imagine that the first entry in his list, Arp 1, would be the most peculiar of all but not so. It is a perfectly regular face-on Sc type spiral (just above middle). Arp included it because he thought it was of low surface brightness. It is compared to the interacting pair Arp 285, NGC 2854 and 2856, (lower right) but these are the "peculiar" ones, not Arp 1. DR
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Bear's Paw Galaxy, Arp 6257 viewsThe first galaxy in Arp's Catalogue of Peculiar Galaxies that looks peculiar! Classed as a BCD - Blue Compact Dwarf - and as such comprises a elliptical/spherical halo with several very bright star forming knots. David R.
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The Bubble Nebula, NGC 7635 337 viewsThe central star is a massive young Wolf-Rayet type whose stellar winds have created the Bubble or cavity in the surrounding molecular cloud. The star (SAO 20575) is thought to have a mass in the range 10-40 Solar masses.
David R
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M52 and the Bubble Nebula649 viewsBack to conventional colour images! The Bubble is dead centre and the wind from the central star is producing those hotspot concentrations where stars can form that we heard about on Tuesday. Imaged from Lancashire.
David R
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The Brown Brown Dust of Home263 viewsIt's difficult to image the dust clouds of the Milky Way from Lancashire. The obligatory light pollution filters knock out most of the brown hues but I have this time been able to recover some of them. The central object is the Cocoon Nebula (IC5146), the dark nebula leading away to the right is B168 and the cluster on the left edge: NGC 7209. David R.
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Cone Nebula322 viewsAnother learning curve combining the two images. The Cone was well passed the meridian when using UHC for the star field, hence only 2 hours. The 'Gerald made' off axis guider is proving a real boon for tracking. Bill C
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Double Cluster (NGC 869)283 viewsDouble Cluster in Perseus, taken 24th of Feb, 8x300secs exp, then guess what? it clouded over. GB
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The Eskimo Nebula313 viewsI had imaged the Eskimo in 2010 but was not happy with the result so tried again this year. It has a prominent inner ring (the face) and a more diffuse outer halo (the hood). It is classed as a bi-polar planetary nebula and its appearance results from us looking straight down its pole. David R
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Eskimo Nebula271 viewsI may have bitten off more than I can chew with this first attempt at NGC2392
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The Fetus Nebula, NGC 7008226 viewsOne of the oddest looking planetary nebula around. The bright spot on the NNE edge is a low excitation knot known as Kohoutek 4-44.The weather did not cooperate and it took 4 nights to get enough signal for this interesting planetary nebula.
David R
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Galaxies NGC 1 & 2389 viewsLocated just inside the Square of Pegasus, this pair of galaxies mark the first entries in the New General Catalogue (NGC). Although NGC 1 is somewhat unspectacular it is really quite a large galaxy similar to the Milky Way but located 220 million light years away. NGC 2 is unrelated and even further distant at around 315 million light years. David R
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Galaxy NGC 1023 (Arp 135)384 viewsNGC 1023 is a lenticular SB0 galaxy located in Perseus. It is overlaid (at left end) by a close companion NGC 1023A, which caused Arp to catalogue it as peculiar. However, it is a simple satellite galaxy similar to our own large Magellanic Cloud, which just happens to be in front of NGC 1023. David R.
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Perseus Galaxy Cluster214 viewsLocated about 250 million light years from Earth, this large cluster is just part of the huge Perseus-Pisces Supercluster. There are at least 50 galaxies in this image with NGC 1275 (centre left) the dominant central type cD galaxy. 7 hours total exposure. DR
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Satellite Galaxies of M31172 viewsNGC 147 and NGC 185 are two satellite galaxies of M31 but they are not the most spectacular objects. However, with clouds around I opted for the Tak (4-inch Refractor) and the Canon 40D. The UHC filter was used - not sure the colours of the galaxies are too accurate with this filter though.
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The Caifornia Nebula177 viewsA bright emission nebula in Perseus. It is so named because it appears to resemble the outline of the US State of California. Just a quickie exposure for me - 100 minutes total!
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California Nebula237 viewsTaken over 2 nights in January totalling 4 hours of exposure.
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Californian Nebula1938 viewsDiscovered by E. E. Barnard in 1884, this bright emission nebula in Perseus is easy to image but the outer reaches require long exposures. The star most likely to be ionising the nebula is the bright, hot & blue Xi Persei (below middle & right a bit). David R.
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The Crystal Ball Nebula, NGC 1514213 viewsA famous nebula in the history of astronomy as this was the nebula that caused William Herschel to change his mind as to exactly what was their nature. Until discovering and observing NGC 1514 he thought all nebula were composed of stars he could not resolve but this one clearly looked like a star within a (gas) cloud. He coined the name Planetary Nebula and the rest, as they say, is history.
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Barred Spiral Galaxy NGC 1530 1872 viewsDespite being around 120 million light years distant, NGC 1530 has much detail visible which gives a clue that this is an intrinsically large galaxy. It has a prominent bar with two wide open spiral arms originating from its ends. There is a lot going on in this galaxy and its most unusual feature is a bright mini-spiral ("nuclear spiral") around its core and orientated roughly perpendicularly to the bar (see inset). David R
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Spiral Galaxy NGC 1560177 viewsNGC 1560 is a relatively nearby dwarf Sd galaxy seen edge-on. It is part of the Maffei/IC342 Group. The latter is an important group just beyond the Local Group but our view of this group is heavily obscured by the Milky Way. Current estimates for the distance of this galaxy vary quite a lot but 12 Mly seems about average.
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