NGC 1566 The Spanish Dancer Close-Up (Data mix CDK 24 & RC 1000) (Mathieu Guinot)

Celestial hemisphere: Southern · Constellation: Dorado (Dor) · Contains: HD27669 · HD27713 · NGC 1566

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NGC 1566 The Spanish Dancer Close-Up (Data mix CDK 24 & RC 1000)

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NGC 1566 The Spanish Dancer Close-Up (Data mix CDK 24 & RC 1000)

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I have been enjoying exploring some beautiful Southern Hemisphere galaxies lately, thanks to the Telescope Live data sets from the CDK24 Telescope in Chile.
This one is the last of this series and my favourite one, both for its beauty and for the pleasure i had while processing it.

For this close view of the wonderful NGC 1566 i used data from the Planewave CDK 24 and the ASA RC1000 which I combined to obtain the best possible resolution while maintaining a good signal to noise ratio. Indeed there were only 2x600s in Luminance with the RC1000 but the contribution was very significant in terms of details!

NGC 1566, sometimes known as the Spanish Dancer, is an intermediate spiral galaxy in the constellation Dorado. It is the brightest member of the NGC 1566 subgroup inside the Dorado group and it appears to be interacting with smaller members of its subgroup.
The morphologival classification of NGC 1566 is SAB(rs)bc, which indicates a spiral galaxy with a weak bar structure around the nucleus (SAB), an incomplete ring around the bar (rs), and showing wound arms (bc). The spiral arms are strong and symmetrical. It is one of the closest and brightest Seyfert galaxies, which made it the subject of much scientific study in the astronomy community.

Data sets from Telescope LIve taken at El Sauce Observatory, Chile, from 2021/03/15 to 2022/09/30

RC 1000 LRGB : 2/2/2/2 x600s
CDK 24 LRGB : 18/17/17/18 x600s

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RA (center)	04h19m59s.486
RA (top/left)	04h21m17s.526
RA (top/right)	04h19m48s.184
RA (bottom/right)	04h18m41s.593
RA (bottom/left)	04h20m10s.762

Dec (center)	-54°56′13″.77
Dec (top/left)	-54°54′51″.72
Dec (top/right)	-54°45′00″.50
Dec (bottom/right)	-54°57′32″.34
Dec (bottom/left)	-55°07′20″.26

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