Here's a tough little subject - a very low surface brightness galaxy near Virgo. This is 45 minutes of exposure time (nine 5-minute images), and it's barely enough to show the key features of this galaxy. The numerous bright spots are star-forming regions; I am guessing but it looks to me like this galaxy has been gravitationally perturbed by a passing neighbor, stimiulating star production and distorting the spiral arms. There seems to be a wide shield of stars are top right, and large numbers of small condensations forming new stars.
Imaged under poor conditions; I'd like to get more luminance and then some color on this one.
Ron Wodaski
Imaged under poor conditions; I'd like to get more luminance and then some color on this one.
Ron Wodaski
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Ron Wodaski
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