NGC 1398 Spiral Galaxy in Fornax

NGC 1398 is an isolated barred spiral galaxy located 65 million light years from the Earth in the constellation of Fornax. The galaxy, with a diameter of 135,000 light years, is slightly larger than the Milky Way.

The galaxy features a bar with a very bright central bulge and a dense bright inner ring with a rope-like structure. The ring is actually two spiral arms that are closed in on each other. In contrast to its well-defined center, NGC 1398 has rather faint, flocculent, nearly circular spiral arms which start tangent to the ring and extend out close to a full revolution, accented by bright well defined regions.

Find an image with the 5 m Blanco Telescope and the Dark Energy Camera: here.

Image data:
LHaRGB (500-160-120-120-120 min) total 17 h, north is down, seeing 0.8-1.2 arc-sec,
80cm f/7 Astrooptik Keller cassegrain, FLI PL 16803, Baader Filters, Prompt 7 CTIO Chile
Processing: Johannes Schedler

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Last modified on Monday, 25 May 2015 20:04

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