The Siamese Twins

[petevasey]

Also known as the Butterfly Galaxies this interacting pair in Virgo is seperately identified as (upper to lower) mag 12 NGC4567 and mag 11 NGC 4568.  The galaxy at the top of the image is mag 11 NGC4564, and the tiny one at the bottom, mag 14.4 IC 3578.  Yet another beautifully clear night yesterday (15th April) - the 5th out of seven.  I need an early night!  But I'll have managed 6 nights imaging this month which although limited time as Summer approaches has helped to make up a bit for the generally terrible season.  Now the Moon is starting to get in the way,  and anyway it's forecast to be cloudy the next couple of nights - phew!!

QSI683 camera with SX AO unit on RC10 truss.  Luminance 14 x 10 minutes. RGB each 5 x 10 minutes all binned 2x2

Cheers,

Peter

[Craig a]

That’s super, imagine if these were the size of M101 they would be spectacular, tight dust lanes and tons of details