NGC 2336 - Barred Spiral in Camelopardalis.

[davegrennan]

Here's an image taken over the Christmas period. I had 'high' hopes to get a few good nights imaging in over the holiday period with all that high pressure about.  Alas it turned out to be a typical winter high filled with lots of murky strato cumulus

Anyway here's the image comprising of 150mins Luminance, 60m R + HA, and 60 mins each in G and B.  I wasn;t entirely happy with this image as the colour data was acquired in less than ideal conditions.  Anyway I guess any image is better than no image at this stage!

Anyway here's the image;

http://webtreatz.com/component/option,com_zoom/Itemid,27/page,view/catid,1/PageNo,12/key,100/hit,1/

[martinastro]

Hi Dave, thanks for posting...I can't seem to get the link working though?

[brianb]

Working for me.... Nice image, a few fuzzies as well as the main subject ... dwarf galaxies or globular clusters associated with it?

[Roman White]

Wow  Very nice galaxy, Dave

[jjb]

Nice image Dave.

Jonathan.

[John9929]

Lovely image Dave, and you have picked up the little background spiral just above it in your image. They reckon NGC 2336 is roughly 100 million light years away.

[martinastro]

I can see it now Dave. Gorgeous spiral structure, almost looks like some kind of insect!

Excellent.

[jgs001]

Wow, awesome image. Defo insectlike. The spirals seem to have knee joints.

[Big Dipper]

That's a real cracker Dave. Very detailed structure and lovely colours too.

The only thing that concerned me slightly is the message at the top of your webpage which reads: "We welcome our visitor from London, United Kingdom. We hope you enjoy your visit today." This I found worrying as last time I checked, I was in Oxford! 

[brianb]

"We welcome our visitor from London, United Kingdom. We hope you enjoy your visit today." This I found worrying as last time I checked, I was in Oxford!  Grin Grin

Ah, but the router where your modem or DSL line joins the Internet may be somewhere else.

Geographical mapping of internet addresses is an imprecise art, in any case easily confused by use of proxies which is very common in those parts of the world with net censorship.

[Big Dipper]

Yes, I was aware of that, hence the " " smilies in my post. It was a weak attempt at humour!

[davegrennan]

Many thanks for all your kind words.

Brian hit the nail on the head with regard to the geographical IP recognition on the website.  It usually comes back to where your ISP is based as thats where the IP address currently assigned to you is located.  Can be a bit hit and miss but once it gets close enough the data will be reasonable accurate.

[Roman White]

Brian hit the nail on the head with regard to the geographical IP recognition on the website.  It usually comes back to where your ISP is based as thats where the IP address currently assigned to you is located.  Can be a bit hit and miss but once it gets close enough the data will be reasonable accurate.

You're right Dave. If I would trust it, I'd thought e.g. that Martin lives in Glasgow ( ) or I live in Kharkiv (130km away)