Celestial hemisphere:  Southern  ·  Constellation: Eridanus (Eri)  ·  Contains:  NGC 1269
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NGC1291 - one weird looking spiral? galaxy, robonrome
NGC1291 - one weird looking spiral? galaxy
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NGC1291 - one weird looking spiral? galaxy

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NGC1291 - one weird looking spiral? galaxy, robonrome
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NGC1291 - one weird looking spiral? galaxy

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I really struggled with this one... it's a largish face on "spiral" galaxy, but comes out looking more like ripples on a pond froma dropped stone... and very faint those "ripples" are to bring any detail out... virtually no distinct Ha regions I can see.

taken over a couple of nights a few weeks back but lots lost to cloud...maybe 8 hours total...probably needs more but not thrilled with spending anymore precious imaging time on this... looking about even with bigger better setups and longer integration times looks like not a lot of detail to see.

processed and stacked in APP and then in Startools and PS CC.

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NGC1291 - one weird looking spiral? galaxy, robonrome

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