This is a dwarf galaxy located about the same distance as M82 but much smaller. At least it appears much smaller. I started this image last winter but never got the Halpha data I wanted until this year. It's been sitting on my hard drive all this time. I'd even forgotten about it until Hubble imaged it and published their photo a couple weeks ago. That got me back taking the H alpha I wanted but clouds moved in after an hour and shut me down. They appear here to stay so I'm going with what little I got before they did me in.

It is part of the Maffei group so heavily obscured by our galaxy's dust and gas. Whether it is larger than it looks due to this dust curtain I don't know. In any case its massive star formation is creating a lot gas being thrown out of the galaxy but not before it is ionized by all the hot O stars created in the starburst. Hubble's narrowband image suppressed the stars while I just added H alpha to the LRGB image.

14" LX200R @ f/10, L=4x10' HA=2x30' RGB=2x10', STL-11000XM, Paramount ME

Full image is at:
http://www.spacebanter.com/attachmen...tid=2272&stc=1

Rick

Attached Images

NGC1569L4X10HA2X30RGB2X10X3CROP.jpg (100.9 KB, 30 views)

A Very Beautiful and interesting StarBurst Galaxy, Very nice processing bringing out the Ha regions. Welldone Rick and Clear Skies

Lovely picture there Rick, thank you for sharing it.

clear skies

chrissy

__________________
You can please some of the people all of the time and all of the people some of the time. But you can not please all of the people all of the time.

"Why change passwords when you've got a baseball bat?"

Remarkable bright colors.

__________________
Observatorio de la Ballona