Twenty six hours in the life of NGC 7793

[Jack Harvey]

Here is NGC 7793, a somewhat infrequently visited object in Sculptor.  This chaotic galaxy is noted to have a quaser or black hole in one of its arms (see inset).  The link to Chandra on the website explains this a bit more.  This image is after several months of working to refine our setup at CTIO.  The master frames for this image range from a fwhm of 1.3-1.5 arc sec (seeing often approached 0.5 arc sec at the site).  Some of the Lum individual frames were 1 arc/sec fwhm, so at this time after lots of work, we are quite happy with the new mount.  The total exposure time is 26 hours.

http://www.starshadows.com/gallery/display.cfm?imgID=442

Thanks for taking time to look.  Jack Harvey & Steve Mazlin (SSRO/PROMPT/CTIO)

[sleshin]

Hi Jack and Steve,

Great to see a new image from you two. Beautiful job processing the details. Nice resolution even in the two small galaxies towards the upper right on the image.  The plethora of Ha  structure in the galaxy is reminiscent of M33. Well done.

Steve

[Harry page]

Hi

Nice to see some more of your excellent work again    I could only dream of seeing like that 

Regards Harry

[Jules]

Jack

That is a beautiful image.

All the best

Julian