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Harshwardhan Pathak
El Sauce Observatory, Chile
11/18/2023
02:40 am

Equipment Details:

Telescope: Planewave CDK24
Camera: QHY 600M Pro
Mount: Mathis MI- 1000/1250
Filters: Astrodon LRGB

Post-processing Details:

Processed in Pixinsight and Adobe Photoshop

Image Details:

Spiral galaxy NGC 1313, however, appears to be alone. Brightly lit with massive new blue stars, star formation appears so rampant in NGC 1313 that it has been labeled a starburst galaxy.
Strange features of NGC 1313 include that its spiral arms are lopsided, and its rotational axis is not at the center of the nuclear bar. Pictured below, NGC 1313 spans about 50,000 light years and lies only about 15 million light years away toward the constellation of the Reticle (Reticulum). This Galaxy is a bright target but when I got to know that the galaxy has the beautiful dust around so I increased the image exposures which led to get these faint stuff around