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NGC1097

Image taken at Clayton Bay, South Australia

Equipment - GSO RC12 STXL11002

Guiding - AOX

Software - MaximDL, Focusmax, Pinpoint, CCDautopilot 5

LRGB 24 hours

Darks, flats and biases applied

Processed in CCD stack and Photoshop CS6

Object -Located in the constellation of Fornax at a distance of 45 million light years. It is a barred spiral which is severely interacting with companion galaxy NGC1097A.

It is a Seyfert galaxy and contains four optical jets which show up in deep images of the galaxy.