My first processed image thanks to Eric Cole's operation at SRO. I have suffered long too long in the swamp they call the "Bay Area" 150 miles from SRO. Remarkably good data. Such a breath of fresh air.
The
Integral Sign Galaxy is an unusual super-thin Type Sd spiral galaxy seen edge-on from our perspective. Although “super-thin” may sound like a subjective term, it has a measurable definition.
uper-thin spirals display little or no central bulge and have a 10-to-1 or higher diameter-to-thickness ratio. They almost always have a low surface brightness, which makes them difficult to spot.
Gary Imm (of course) has a
page on them.
Used all the processing tricks I learned at the bottom of the swamp here. I was particularly careful using GHS on the L.
There are a number of objects here that are not identified in the plate solve that I need to look up. I may be hallucinating but I wonder if that is a PN off to the right.
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