NGC1313 Image taken at Clayton Bay, South Australia Equipment - 302mm GSO f4 Truss Newtonian, QSI WSG-8, Software Bisque PME Guiding - SBIG STi Software - MaximDL 6, Focusmax V4, SkyX, CCDautopilot 5 LHaRGB 16.6 hours Processed in CCDstack 2 and Photoshop CS6 Object - Located in the constellation of Reticulum at a distance of about 12.9 million light years. Also known as the Topsy Turvy Galaxy, lots of star formation can be seen with many Ha and Hb regions present. The galaxy is about 50,000 light years in diameter.
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