NGC 1433: Nearby and StrangeA.K.A: …. PGC 13586
OTA: CDK24
Camera: Morovian 6000 Pro
Observatory: Heaven's Mirror
Date of Capture: Nov '23
Date of Processing: Nov '23
Exposures:
R: 11 x 900 sec
G: 11 x 900
B: 12 x 900
L: 15 x 900
H: 28 x 900
Total Exposure time: 16 hours
Image Width: 18.5 arc-minutes
Processing Tools:
1. Commercial: PixInsight, Topaz (Studio2), Photo Director 365, Aurora HDR, Luminar Neo, 3DLUT Creator
2. Pixinsight Addons: NoiseXTerminator, BlurXTerminator, StarXTerminator
3. My Scripts: NB_Assistant, AC_Restar, Subframe Weighting Tool (Excel w/ J. Hunt)
Target Description:
NGC 1433 lies at a declination of -47 degrees, making it inaccessible to North American images, but it lies relatively close to Earth and is a current subject of study—perhaps you have seen the dramatic IR image captured by JWST
(
https://www.esa.int/ESA_Multimedia/Images/2023/02/NGC_1433_MIRI_image).
NGC 1422 has a barred structure, arms with active star formation with an inner region of less-active star birth, and a bright center where, once again, star formation becomes abundant. Together with the geometry of the sparsity of dust lanes in the arms, astronomers believe this galaxy has recently had a close encounter or perhaps even merged with another galaxy.
ALMA has found that the bright core has a "spiral structure." Hints of that structure appear in this image as dark dust bands within the core. (No surprise, HST shows this structure even better.)
Statistics:
Distance: 43 ly
Apparent Magnitude: 10
Average Surface Magnitude: 24
Pixel Span at Target: 1.1x10^11 km (Sun's diameter is 1.4x10^6 km)
Alex Woronow 
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