Observation by Ian Jarrett: NGC772 Fiddlehead Galaxy

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Ian Jarrett

Observer

Ian Jarrett

Observed

2025 Nov 20 - 23:30

Uploaded

2025 Nov 22 - 16:11

Objects

NGC1
NGC770

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Constellation

Aries

Field centre

RA: 01^h59^m
Dec: +19°00'
Position angle: +88°46'

Field size

0°21' × 0°21'

Equipment

Edge HD 9.25" SCT
Celestron x0.7 Reducer
Player One Ares-M Camera
Antlia LRGB V-series PRO Filters

Exposure

90x60s each of R,G,B + 326 x 60s Luminance

Location

Hampshire, Bortle 4

Target name

NGC772 Fiddlehead Galaxy

Title

NGC772 Fiddlehead Galaxy

About this image

I imaged NGC772 over three clear nights around the new moon this month. It has a wonderful nautilus shell shape, caused by the gravitational tidal force from its nearby neighbour galaxy NGC770 (just to the left). The bright core of NGC772 made this a very complicated and time consuming image to process, taking 6 hours in total before I was satisfied.

Files associated with this observation

NGC772.jpg (1.5 MB)

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