Barred Spiral Galaxy - NGC1512

NGC 1512 is a Barred Spiral galaxy, 38 million light years away in the constellation Horologuim.
The galaxy displays a double ring structure with one ring outside on the main disc and another surrounding the galactic nucleus. 

The galaxy shape is unusual with several faint loose spiral arms photographically revealed like they are flung away from the galaxy, but this is the result of NGC1512 being in the process of merging with NGC1510, a near by lenticular galaxy, causing tidal distortion of the outside spiral arms.

Imaged in Ha & LRGB with a QHY268M camera, through a C8 SCT at 2032mm focal length, tracked on a CGEM mount for a total exposure time of 12 hours and 5 minutes.