NGC 1395—Not Your Basic Blob

[Russ.Carpenter]

This will not be popular on Astrobin (which is essentially a beauty contest). It was difficult to process, but is super interesting. https://www.astrobin.com/du9uge/

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NGC 1395: A Voracious Eater of Galaxies

You might think this is an ordinary elliptical galaxy, but not true. It has a very large number of globular clusters (6,000, vs around 200 for the Milky Way) which indicates that NGC 1895 has gobbled quite a number of dwarf galaxies. And in 1983 a faint shell structure was discovered, which was probably caused by NGC 1395’s recent accretion of a smaller galaxy. If you look set the image carefully, you can see at least seven dwarfs.

NGC 1395 also satisfies five criteria of Catalog of Southern Peculiar Galaxies and Associations, by Halton Arp and Barry Madore.

Category 8-Galaxies with Apparent Companions

Category 15-Galaxies with Tails, Lumps, Loops of Material or Debris

Category 17- Chains

Category 20-Dwarf Galaxies (Low Surface Brightness)

Tech Notes for ASA 500/3.6:
ASA Newtonian, 500 mm aperture, 1900mm focal length, F3.6
FLI Proline 16803, 9 μm pixel, 4096 X 4096
ASA DDM85 equatorial mount
Processing with PixInsight, StarTools, and Affinity Photo

[Mike in Rancho]

As if those neatly-colored stars in the foreground weren't enough!

Cool picture of stuff we rarely get to see, as usual.

[Russ.Carpenter]

Very kind of you, Mike.

Russ

[firebrand18]

Very nice Russ, love seeing 'out of the ordinary' objects and love your AB "beauty contest" comment!

Nick