2023年10月19日 · Page 1 of 2 - NGC 660: A Rare and Brilliant Polar Ring Galaxy - posted in Deep Sky Observing: On Monday night, I had a wonderful observing session that almost didnt happen. One of my targets of most interest was the polar ring galaxy NGC 660. Polar ring galaxies have an outer ring of gas and stars rotating around their polar axis due to previous …

2024年2月16日 · NGC660 Polar ing Galaxy - posted in Experienced Deep Sky Imaging: Title Correction: NGC660 Polar Ring Galaxy NGC 660 is a peculiar and unique polar-ring galaxy located approximately 45 million light-years from Earth in the Pisces constellation. This is an 8.3hr LRGB image using data collected by DSW in Rio Hurtato, Chile, during Oct-Nov 2023.

2020年12月12日 · NGC 660 - posted in Experienced Deep Sky Imaging: NGC 660 (UGC 1201, PGC 6318, VV 979 and others) is a polar-ring galaxy located approximately 44.2 million light-years away in Pisces. This is likely the result of two galaxies that merged a billion or more years ago. Asteroid 56157 1999 CG135 is the line to the right of the galaxy. Asteroid 158240 2001 …

2024年10月12日 · NGC 660 - A Polar Ring Galaxy - posted in Experienced Deep Sky Imaging: Not the first image of NGC 660 for this site but I thought I would share anyway. Taken with a C11 at 2970mm and a ST-8XME/AO-8. 18 subs of 10 minutes each. Was going to add some color but of course we get a cloudy stretch and the moon will interfere with that goal for a bit. Very …

2024年11月6日 · NGC 660 - A unique polar ring galaxy via a CDK - posted in Experienced Deep Sky Imaging: This one was pretty difficult to process, but not mostly because of the processing itself. Rather, the issue was mostly deciding how many subframes to retain versus discard in the balancing effort between SNR (include more) and FWHM/detail (include only the ...

2022年1月31日 · NGC 660 - polar-ring galaxy - posted in Experienced Deep Sky Imaging: Hi, in November I had also imaged NGC 660, but I thought that the color channels were not that useful due to clouds etc. And also not what I had actually planned in terms of quantity. Triggered by the exchange with a friend of mine, whose image of this galaxy was the motivation for me to …

2019年11月2日 · NGC 660 is located 45 million light-years away in the Pisces constellation. It presents a target of 2.7 X 0.84 arcmin, making it a challenging object for small telescopes. It has an apparent magnitude of 12.0. When I first looked that the raw data, it was clear that this galaxy had an interesting story to tell.

NGC 660 43 frames x 16s I was after this galaxy for a while already, just the dark site gave me the chance to capture it properly at last. And I was amazed how well the structures showed up after a short time. The appearence of the smaller galaxy made the image even more attractive. Celestron C8 with Starizona SCT IV reducer = f/7.1 = 1450 mm FL

2012年12月14日 · NGC 660 - AT6RC - posted in Experienced Deep Sky Imaging: NGC 660 is rare polar ring galaxy located between 20 and 50 million light-years away in Pisces. The current theory is that these types of galaxies are formed by the merger of two galaxies that collide or pass near each other. The interaction causes increased star formation which also leads to these …

2022年1月8日 · NGC 660 - posted in Sketching: I really want to see NGC 660 in all its glory. I missed it in my 6 MCT years ago, could not find or see it. So, its been on my list for a while. Finally after a break in the weather, I managed to star hop to it, again, and still not see it in my 8 under Bortle 4 skies with descent transparency. Not right away, at least. So, I ramped up the …