NGC 1097—Interacting with NGC 1097a

[Russ.Carpenter]

This text and image were uploaded to Astrobin this morning, at this URL: https://www.astrobin.com/36210d/

You could say that NGC 1097 is a twisted mess. The small, but mighty, companion galaxy NGC 1097a has created large scale tidal debris and distortions in its much larger neighbor.

In addition, there are four faint jets, made of stars, indicating that NGC 1097 cannibalized a dwarf galaxy in the distant past. To top it off, NGC 1097 is a Seyfert galaxy with a super massive black hole in its core.

This is an RGB image processed with a synthetic luminance.

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

[Russ.Carpenter]

This image just received a"Top Pick" from Astrobin. Thank you StarTools.

Russ

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