The Cigar Galaxy

[budguinn]

Hi gang,

Kind of a dry spell lately.......I have been gathering information on this object for about five months.
This used three different scopes and three different cameras



Some larger sizes

Three Scopes and three cameras
Tak 180ED and SXV-M25C
NP101 and SX-H9C
R200SS and QSI 532WSG

about 12 hours of HA and 12 or so of color........pretty poor seeing and high clouds...but, you get what you get.

comments are always appreciated

[tvuejohn]

Bud,
Great picture, and I don't even smoke....
I've never seen the red area before, Interacting galaxy ?
Do you like the H9C I'm considering it... but with guider It's around $3000
so it's a ways off.

John

[budguinn]

Hi John,

The galaxy is known as a star burst galaxy....intense star formation and many supernovae. The gases are superheated gases that give off a very nice color when ionized.

I love the H9C.....it was replaced by the M25C because I really like wide field views, but I could never bring myself to sell it....it just keeps on working without any hiccups.

thanks for looking