The beautiful barred spiral galaxy NGC 7479 in the constellation of Pegasus
on October 18, 2017. NGC 7479 is 105 million light-years from Earth. It is a Seyfert galaxy undergoing starburst activity in the
nucleus, the bar and and the outer arms. Seyfert galaxies are "active galaxies" containing a nucleus (core) with a very high surface
brightness and strong emission in a wide range of the electromagnetic spectrum (emitting radio, infrared, visible, ultraviolet,
X- and gamma rays). Seyfert galaxies have supermassive black holes at their centers which are surrounded by accretion discs of
in-falling material. NGC 7479 was discovered by William Herschel in 1784 (source: Wikipedia).
Twenty-three exposures of 3 minutes at ISO 800 were stacked with no dark frame subtraction with Deep Sky Stacker (resulting in a
1 h 09 min exposure) and further processed in Photoshop.
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Equipment: Canon EOS 450D Baader modified camera, TeleVue Paracorr Type II coma corrector,
16" f/4.5 "Ninja" dobsonian telescope riding on a dual-axis Tom Osypowski equatorial platform,
Lacerta MGEN autoguider, Lacerta off axis system (field of view comparison:
image of the moon with the same equipment).
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