Celestial hemisphere:  Southern  ·  Constellation: Fornax (For)  ·  Contains:  NGC 1097
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NGC 1097, Doug Summers
NGC 1097
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NGC 1097

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NGC 1097, Doug Summers
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NGC 1097

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45 million light-years distant, NGC 1097 is entangled in a collision with NGC 1097A.   The nicely barred spiral lives in Fornax.  The nucleus of the galaxy contains a supermassive black hole (140 million solar masses).   The inner prominent ring in the core is approximately 5,000 light-years in diameter (Wikipedia).

This is a pretty low target for us northern hemisphere observers.   There are many wonderful images of this galaxy from Chilean telescopes, but not that many from the US or Europe.   It rises to a maximum altitude angle of 28 degrees in southern AZ where this data was captured.    It can give up reasonable detail with care.

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