NGC 1097 in Fornax == REV. 02 == (Fernando)

Celestial hemisphere: Southern · Constellation: Fornax (For) · Contains: NGC 1097

NGC 1097 in Fornax == REV. 02 ==, Fernando

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NGC 1097 in Fornax == REV. 02 ==

NGC 1097 is a barred spiral galaxy and also a Seyfert galaxy.

The galaxy is 45 million light years away from us in the constellation Fornax.

It is a severely interacting galaxy with obvious tidal debris and distortions caused by interaction with the companion galaxy NGC 1097A, visible on the image aligned with the major axis of the elliptical shape of NGC 1097's core.

NGC 1097 has a supermassive black hole at its center, with around 140 million times the mass of the Sun. Around the central black hole is a glowing ring of star-forming regions with a network of gas and dust that spirals from the ring to the black hole. An inflow of material toward the central bar of the galaxy causes new stars to be created in the ring.

The ring is approximately 5,000 light years in diameter, the spiral arms of the galaxy extend tens of thousands of light-years beyond the ring. The ring can be seen on this image, well in the center of the core.

Observational data:

Constellation Fornax

Right ascension 02h 46m 19.0s

Declination −30° 16′ 30″[1]

Redshift 1271 ± 3 km/s

Distance 45 million ly

Apparent magnitude (V) 10.2

Apparent size (V) 9′.3 × 6′.3

Other designations

PGC 10488, Caldwell

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Luminance: 35x400sec

Red: 16x600sec

Blue: 16x600sec

Green: 10x600sec

REV.02

The targets were:

A better white balance

A less noise background

To get some more details in the core and in the hole galaxy

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