Observation by Nik Szymanek: NGC 1365 in Fornax

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Paul Downing

Observer

Nik Szymanek

Observed

2020 Feb 12 - 22:24

Uploaded

2020 Feb 15 - 10:59

Objects

Fornax
NGC1365

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Constellation

Fornax

Field centre

RA: 03^h33^m
Dec: -36°08'
Position angle: -118°37'

Field size

0°17' × 0°15'

Equipment

Telescope: ASA RC-1000AZ 100cm f/6.8
Camera: FLI PL16803 4096 x 4096 0.27arcsec/pixel
Astrodon LRGB filters

Exposure

600s Lum x 4 Rx2 Gx2 Bx2

Location

El Sauce Observatory in Chile

Target name

NGC 1365

Title

NGC 1365 in Fornax

About this image

It's a pity that you have to be a lot further south than the UK to be able to take great images of this superb example of a barred spiral galaxy. Your galleries editor spend hours when living in Houston trying to image it, but never even came close to the quality of this super image from Nik, who describes it as "Test exposures using the Telescope Live robotic CHI-3 telescope from the El Sauce Observatory in Chile under bright Moon conditions."

NGC 1365 is 56 million light years from us, with a mass of 390 billion solar. It is known as "The Great Barred Spiral Galaxy" - for obvious reasons.

Files associated with this observation

wk7_20_n1365_szymanek.jpg (30.5 kB)

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