M77 (Arp 37, NGC 1068, UGC 2188, Cetus A and many others) is a barred spiral galaxy located approximately 47 million light-years away in Cetus. Arp classified this one as Spiral Galaxies – Companions on Arms – Low Surface Brightness Companions. Your guess is as good as mine.
Luminance – 8x600s – 80 minutes – binned 1x1
RGB – 8x600s – 80 minutes each – binned 1x1
320 minutes total exposure – 5 hours 20 minutes
Imaged December 21st, 23rd, 24th and 26th, 2022 at the El Sauce Observatory (Rio Hurtado, Chile) with a FLI PL 9000 on a PlaneWave CDK24 at f/6.5 3974 mm.
LRGB - https://www.flickr.c...7565081/sizes/l
This data is from Telescope Live (https://telescope.live/) “One-click Observations.”
See the link above for the non-cropped version.
Dan
