ESO358-13 Spiral Galaxy in HaLRGB - can a galaxy be "cute"? (robonrome)

Celestial hemisphere: Southern · Constellation: Fornax (For) · Contains: NGC 1350

ESO358-13 Spiral Galaxy in HaLRGB - can a galaxy be "cute"?, robonrome

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ESO358-13 Spiral Galaxy in HaLRGB - can a galaxy be "cute"?

I guess I shouldn't think of something vast beyond my imagining containing billions of suns as "cute" or tiny, but that's my initial impression of this "little" fellow.

I would probably have passed over this target, but it was very well located for all night imaging and with lots of cloud to navigate thought it was my best bet to get at least a few hours of "keeper"subs per night...this over two nights.

The arms barely show in the subs, but was please to see a little more action coming through in the stacks. This included 1hr 40min worth of Ha, but really not much there...have worked it in but no obvious Has regions.

LRGB at 90s exp
Ha at 300s exp

Processed and stacked in APP, Startools and various starless editing in PS and recombination to taste.

And this marks my 100th image loaded up to Astro-bin... maybe not the biggest or the best, but it is cute ;-)

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