Celestial hemisphere:  Northern  ·  Constellation: Cetus (Cet)  ·  Contains:  NGC 1073
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NGC 1073, Tom Harrison
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NGC1073 is an SBC barred spiral galaxy about 58 Million Light-Years distant towards the Constellation Cetus. Originally photographed by Edwin Hubble in 1950, this galaxy has very active star formation in its bluish spiral arms, and probably has an HII nucleus. It is a companion to the bright Seyfert galaxy NGC1068. It has recently been studied for several bright x-ray sources, possible black holes? Three quasars can be seen very near the galaxy, and references to those can be found in a web search.

Object: NGC1073

Distance: 58 Million Light-Years

Magnitude: 16.4

Date: December 2010

Place: Fort Davis, TX

Exposure Details: LRGB:700:150:180:240 unbinned

Processing: MaxIm DL, CCDStack, CCDInspector, Photoshop CS3

Optics: 12.5" RCOS Truss

Focal Length: 28808mm @ f9

Mount: Paramount ME Robotic

Camera: SBIG STL6303E

Focuser: RCOS

Guiding: Off-Axis with SBIG Guide Camera

Filters: Tru-Balance Gen II LRGB

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NGC 1073, Tom Harrison