Perseus Galaxy cluster

It was  very clear, but also very cold here in East Cheshire on Monday night. I don't know what's up with our weather, I think somebody had better tell the big man, it's still only Autumn.

It was -5 with Snow on the ground!!

Last night, I decided I would concentrate on imaging galaxies in Perseus, so I decided, I would spend a couple of warm hour's (I can image from the comfort of my conservatory now) imaging NGC1275 or Perseus A, together with it's accompanying galaxy cluster.

I feel very humbled when I look at this image, as it shows you I think, just how vast and complex our Universe is. NGC1275 is a staggering 300mly from Earth. It is a radio galaxy and has a radio source at it's core, this is known as 3c84.

This image is a 1hr 44min exposure (cloud's buggered any remaining  exposures) composed from the usual 4min30second subs. Taken through the SPX 200-800 f4 with my Atik16ic. And guided by the QHY5 and PHD. The seeing was very bad Ant 4.

Perseus A is the galaxy just left of centre. You can, if you look closely, see that I was just starting to bring out the filaments that surround this fascinating object. These I think are caused by the galaxy's black hole at it's nucleus.

Here is another image only this time showing the catalogue number for each galaxy.

My other offering, is from Friday night. Again I decided to image galaxies and this time selected NGC1023. This is a beautiful galaxy that is over looked. I suspect the reason is NGC891 and the Andromeda spiral.