NGC 1291

[dcrowson]

NGC 1291 (NGC 1269, PGC 12209, ESO 301-2 and others) is a ring galaxy located approximately 36.5 million light-years away in Eridanus.

Luminance – 21x600s – 210 minutes – binned 1x1
RGB – 20x600s – 200 minutes each – binned 1x1

810 minutes total exposure – 13 hours 30 minutes

Imaged over sixteen nights in from February through November, 2022 at the El Sauce Observatory (Rio Hurtado, Chile) with a FLI PL 9000 on a PlaneWave CDK24 at f/6.5 3974 mm.

This data is from Telescope Live (https://telescope.live/) “One-click Observations.”

LRGB - https://www.flickr.com/photos/dcrowson/ ... 9/sizes/l/



Dan

[Graeme1858]

Excellent image.

Intrigued by the shape I did a search on NGC1291. It makes an interesting read. A fine example of a transitional phase galaxy.

Thanks Dan

Graeme