The Barnard's Galaxy and IFN

Image Title: The Barnard's Galaxy and IFN

Date image was taken: July 24, 2023

Image Description and Details : Barnard’s Galaxy, or NGC 6822, is a barred irregular galaxy within our Local Group, located at about 1.5 million light-years; it is the closest non-satellite galaxy to the Milky Way. It features an abundance of blue hot young stars and several star forming regions, here visible as the pinkish “bubbles” around it, which are unusually numerous for the galaxy size - Barnard’s galaxy has spent most of its time in isolation but it became quite close to our Milky Way and gravitational interaction is believed to have triggered all this star formation.

Photo taken at Santa Susana, Portugal (luminance) on July 9th and 10th, 2022 and at Barcarena Portugal (RGB and Ha) on July 19th, 20th and 24th, 2023.

Technical details:

LUM: 145 x 180’’

RGB: 139 x 120’’

Ha: 136 x180’’

Total: 18h39

SW EQ6-R Pro | TS Optics Triplet APO 800/115 | TS Optics TSFLAT2 0.79x | QHYCCD 268M | Optolong LRGB | Astronomik Ha 6nm | RBFocus Gaius-S | RBFocus Myrrdin 2.3

Acquisition: N.I.N.A. | Processing: Pixinsight

Copyright: Copyright: André Vilhena

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