Great Barred Spiral (NGC 1365)

Phil Misiowiec

Great Barred Spiral (NGC 1365)

NGC 1365 is a double-barred spiral galaxy about 56 million light-years from Earth. It is about 200,000 light-years in diameter, making it one of the largest observed galaxies. Interestingly, this shape is what our Milky Way galaxy might look like.

SPECIFICATIONS

Telescope ..........................................................................................................................................................................................................................

CHI-1-CMOS (Planewave CDK24)

Camera ..........................................................................................................................................................................................................................

QHY 600M

Location ..........................................................................................................................................................................................................................

El Sauce Observatory, Chile

Date of observation ..........................................................................................................................................................................................................................

12-15 August 2023

Filters ..........................................................................................................................................................................................................................

RGB

Processing ..........................................................................................................................................................................................................................

PixInsight 1.8.9-2

Credits ..........................................................................................................................................................................................................................

Phil Misiowiec (processing), Telescope.live (data)