| NGC 1532 Spiral Galaxy Caldwell: 000, Constellation: Eridanus (The River), RA 04h 12.1m DEC -32d 52m Distance: 50 Million light years, Visual Magnitude: 10.5, Diameter: 3 x 2 arc mins Transits at the end of twilight at 9:02pm 13th January, Elevation 88 degrees, due South |
| NGC 1532 is an barred spiral galaxy seen nearly edge on, interacting with dwarf galaxy NGC 1531 (at 7 o'clock). Another companion dwarf galaxy can be seen to the lower right. |
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| - Imaged on 20100115 - 10" F4.7 Newtonian Reflector - 800 video frames with Halpha filter at x128 integration - Bahtinov focusing mask - rough polar alignment, no moon, ok seeing, elevation about 70 degrees - stacked in Registax 5.0 - Gamma adjusted in Registax 5.0 - processed in Photoshop 7.0 |