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. |