NGC 1395—Not Your Basic Blob

User images created with StarTools.
Post Reply
Russ.Carpenter
Posts: 159
Joined: Thu Jul 17, 2014 8:20 pm
Location: Green Valley, Arizona

NGC 1395—Not Your Basic Blob

Post by Russ.Carpenter »

This will not be popular on Astrobin (which is essentially a beauty contest). It was difficult to process, but is super interesting. https://www.astrobin.com/du9uge/

*****************

NGC 1395: A Voracious Eater of Galaxies

You might think this is an ordinary elliptical galaxy, but not true. It has a very large number of globular clusters (6,000, vs around 200 for the Milky Way) which indicates that NGC 1895 has gobbled quite a number of dwarf galaxies. And in 1983 a faint shell structure was discovered, which was probably caused by NGC 1395’s recent accretion of a smaller galaxy. If you look set the image carefully, you can see at least seven dwarfs.

NGC 1395 also satisfies five criteria of Catalog of Southern Peculiar Galaxies and Associations, by Halton Arp and Barry Madore.

Category 8-Galaxies with Apparent Companions

Category 15-Galaxies with Tails, Lumps, Loops of Material or Debris

Category 17- Chains

Category 20-Dwarf Galaxies (Low Surface Brightness)

Tech Notes for ASA 500/3.6:
ASA Newtonian, 500 mm aperture, 1900mm focal length, F3.6
FLI Proline 16803, 9 μm pixel, 4096 X 4096
ASA DDM85 equatorial mount
Processing with PixInsight, StarTools, and Affinity Photo
Attachments
NGC1395 Small.jpg
NGC1395 Small.jpg (508.19 KiB) Viewed 1282 times
Mike in Rancho
Posts: 1141
Joined: Sun Jun 20, 2021 10:05 pm
Location: Alta Loma, CA

Re: NGC 1395—Not Your Basic Blob

Post by Mike in Rancho »

As if those neatly-colored stars in the foreground weren't enough!

Cool picture of stuff we rarely get to see, as usual. :bow-yellow:
Russ.Carpenter
Posts: 159
Joined: Thu Jul 17, 2014 8:20 pm
Location: Green Valley, Arizona

Re: NGC 1395—Not Your Basic Blob

Post by Russ.Carpenter »

Very kind of you, Mike.

Russ
firebrand18
Posts: 86
Joined: Tue Feb 04, 2020 1:43 pm

Re: NGC 1395—Not Your Basic Blob

Post by firebrand18 »

Very nice Russ, love seeing 'out of the ordinary' objects and love your AB "beauty contest" comment! :thumbsup:

Nick
Post Reply