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NGC1365 - The Great Barred Spiral Galaxy, Nick Roach
NGC1365 - The Great Barred Spiral Galaxy
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NGC1365 - The Great Barred Spiral Galaxy

NGC1365 - The Great Barred Spiral Galaxy, Nick Roach
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NGC1365 - The Great Barred Spiral Galaxy

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This was my first attempt at seeing across the terrible void of intergalactic space to see another spiral galaxy. I painstakingly searched through Deep Sky Object Browser for an appropriate target, and found this beautiful, face-on, very neat, barred spiral galaxy, 56 Mly away. I used my astromaster 70 EQ mount, with my Canon 400D with a 75-300 mm zoom lens mounted on it. I collected 60 30-second exposures, stacked them in DSS and stretched the histogram with photoshop. I didn't catch much detail, but there it is! Now that it has been plate-solved through Astrobin, I see that many of the other points of light in this wide-field image are also galaxies!

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NGC1365 - The Great Barred Spiral Galaxy, Nick Roach