Celestial hemisphere:  Southern  ·  Constellation: Fornax (For)  ·  Contains:  NGC 1365
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NGC 1365 Galaxy in the Fornax Cluster, Alex Woronow
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NGC 1365 Galaxy in the Fornax Cluster

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NGC 1365 Galaxy in the Fornax Cluster, Alex Woronow
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NGC 1365 Galaxy in the Fornax Cluster

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NGC 1365

OTA: TAO 150 (f/7.3)

Camera: FLI - ML16200 (1.13 arcseconds/pixel -- up-sampled 0.4 arcseconds/pixel)

Observatory: Deep Sky West, Chile

EXPOSURES:

Red: 16 x 900 sec.

Blue: 12 x 900

Green: 11 x 900

Lum.: 21 x 900

H 13 x 1800

Total exposure 21.5 hours

Image Width: ~.3 deg (~6% of the original full image)

Processed by Alex Woronow (2019) using PixInsight, Matlab, SWT, and others

NGC 1365 is the most prominent member of the Fornax galactic cluster, visible in the southern sky. It’s classification is “barred spiral galaxy” due to the straight structure traversing the galaxy’s center (nearly horizontally in this picture). One theory has it that the barred structure functions to feed gas and dust into the central region, promoting star formation and feeding the central black hole.

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