Eye of Sauron (NGC4151) and his unblinking gaze (DoubleStarPhotography)

Celestial hemisphere: Northern · Constellation: Canes Venatici (CVn) · Contains: NGC 4145 · NGC 4151 · NGC 4156 · PGC 213942 · PGC 2149501 · PGC 2151005 · PGC 2151305 · PGC 2153375 · PGC 2157075 · PGC 38640 · PGC 38778 · PGC 38811

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Eye of Sauron (NGC4151) and his unblinking gaze

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Eye of Sauron (NGC4151) and his unblinking gaze

NGC 4151 is an intermediate spiral Seyfert galaxy with weak inner ring structure located 15.8 megaparsecs from Earth in the constellation Canes Venatici. The galaxy was first mentioned by William Herschel on March 17, 1787; it was one of the six Seyfert galaxies described in the paper which defined the term. - Wikipedia

This is my second attempt at this object with better but not ideal results but I've learn something from each attempt and I beleive third time will be the charm.

First attempt was only a couple of hours in duration but was enought to reveal the 'eye" portion.....but no sign of the faint arms. The second go round I doubled the exposure time and managed to reveal the faint arms but just barely.

The next attempt I'll be going MUCH longer on this object to insure the data fully reveals the arms and I'll make this object the cetner piece of the shot an hopefully a final! (Until I get more aperture that is ;-)

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Astrometry.net job	7543496
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RA (center)	12h10m12s.950
RA (top/left)	12h11m54s.925
RA (top/right)	12h11m57s.384
RA (bottom/right)	12h08m29s.975
RA (bottom/left)	12h08m29s.554

Dec (center)	+39°38′13″.96
Dec (top/left)	+39°18′11″.50
Dec (top/right)	+39°57′54″.57
Dec (bottom/right)	+39°58′10″.84
Dec (bottom/left)	+39°18′27″.84

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