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ASTRO: NGC 1530
I took this one a couple months ago, processed it then forgot it until
Stefan's post of another galaxy at 75 degrees brought it back into my memory banks. I can't image north of 70 degrees due to my "Polaris Tree" It blocks the sky for 20 degrees south and east of Polaris and about 25 degrees west. Of course that 45 degree (minimum) obstruction goes down to the northern horizon. But there is one gap in this. A June storm tore out a large limb leaving a hole. Its only about 15 to 20 minutes of time in size and at 75 degrees about 7 hours before culmination. I'd always wanted to image this galaxy due to its likeness to the more commonly imaged NGC 3718. But knew I couldn't due to its declination. The tornadic winds changed that. With a lot of planning last July I determined when it would be in that storm created hole. I could only get one 10 minute frame a night though sometimes pushed it to 2 as weather was a problem and I was quickly losing the hole. The sky was moving west faster than the sky was getting dark earlier so it soon was going to be past the hole before dark and that meant I had to work fast. The result is a lot of pine needles adding some very "interesting" diffraction effects to the stars. Since I took the color frames different nights and they hit different needles as the wind moved the branches differently each night, the diffraction pattern of each color frame was different. So there are come weird color effects around the brightest stars. It's amazing how fast nature heals. That hole has closed considerably since July as branches grow toward the light that hole now lets in. It is noticably smaller in only 2 months time. As I mentioned NGC 1530 is very similar to NGC 3718 but twice as far away at a bit over 100 million light years. Since its angular size is only slightly smaller it must be a much larger galaxy. It also has to very interesting dust lanes in the bar that turn to a spiral structure as they approach the nucleus. In fact the core appears to be a very tiny spiral galaxy and the bar stars beyond this mini galaxy. But unlike NGC 3718 there's no Hickson group nearby nor any candidate for what caused the arms to distort like they have. 14" LX200R @ f/10, L=4x10' binned 2x2, RGB=2x10' binned 3x3, STL-11000XM, Paramount ME Rick -- Correct domain name is arvig and it is net not com. Prefix is correct. Third character is a zero rather than a capital "Oh". |
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ASTRO: NGC 1530
Great picture Rick, great effort to not only dodge clouds but also needles.
This is one of my favourite "overlooked" objects, there aren't too many pictures of it to be found. I like those northern galaxies as they stay away from the horizon murk and tracking accuracy is not an issue near the pole. I have collected some of them at http://www.slilge.de/GalaxienNordpol/index.html Stefan "Rick Johnson" schrieb im Newsbeitrag ter.com... I took this one a couple months ago, processed it then forgot it until Stefan's post of another galaxy at 75 degrees brought it back into my memory banks. I can't image north of 70 degrees due to my "Polaris Tree" It blocks the sky for 20 degrees south and east of Polaris and about 25 degrees west. Of course that 45 degree (minimum) obstruction goes down to the northern horizon. But there is one gap in this. A June storm tore out a large limb leaving a hole. Its only about 15 to 20 minutes of time in size and at 75 degrees about 7 hours before culmination. I'd always wanted to image this galaxy due to its likeness to the more commonly imaged NGC 3718. But knew I couldn't due to its declination. The tornadic winds changed that. With a lot of planning last July I determined when it would be in that storm created hole. I could only get one 10 minute frame a night though sometimes pushed it to 2 as weather was a problem and I was quickly losing the hole. The sky was moving west faster than the sky was getting dark earlier so it soon was going to be past the hole before dark and that meant I had to work fast. The result is a lot of pine needles adding some very "interesting" diffraction effects to the stars. Since I took the color frames different nights and they hit different needles as the wind moved the branches differently each night, the diffraction pattern of each color frame was different. So there are come weird color effects around the brightest stars. It's amazing how fast nature heals. That hole has closed considerably since July as branches grow toward the light that hole now lets in. It is noticably smaller in only 2 months time. As I mentioned NGC 1530 is very similar to NGC 3718 but twice as far away at a bit over 100 million light years. Since its angular size is only slightly smaller it must be a much larger galaxy. It also has to very interesting dust lanes in the bar that turn to a spiral structure as they approach the nucleus. In fact the core appears to be a very tiny spiral galaxy and the bar stars beyond this mini galaxy. But unlike NGC 3718 there's no Hickson group nearby nor any candidate for what caused the arms to distort like they have. 14" LX200R @ f/10, L=4x10' binned 2x2, RGB=2x10' binned 3x3, STL-11000XM, Paramount ME Rick -- Correct domain name is arvig and it is net not com. Prefix is correct. Third character is a zero rather than a capital "Oh". |
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