NGC2521

No, that's not the Sunflower galaxy, though it bears more than a passing resemblance. THis is a color version of the image of NGC3521 that I posted as luminance-only a few days ago.

I wasn't able to obtain a lot of color due to weather, but I got enough to give an idea of the colors in the galaxy, so I thought I would post it. Color is a single 3:5:6 minute RGB set binned 2x2.

Ron Wodaski
http://www.newastro.com/remote

Attached Image:

Whoops - make that NGC 3521, fingers slipped.

Ron

Nice work as usual Ron. Are those indavidual stars near the core or clusters or maybe nebula? The faint dust lane the circle the entire galaxy is really cool too. Beautiful!

hi,

yes that is a very pretty galaxy. I stumbled on it last year while crusing in the dipper, lynx ect. It looked bright in my 121/2 " dob so I later took a ccd "snapshot of it to see what it looked like. I agree it looks very much like a the sunflower.

A very nice image of a relatively unknown galaxy.


clear skies,