Mark Sansom
NGC 660.
NGC 660 is a peculiar and unique polar-ring galaxy located approximately 45 million light-years from Earth in the Pisces constellation. It is the only such galaxy having, as its host, a "late-type lenticular galaxy", (lenticular is a type of galaxy intermediate between an elliptical and a spiral galaxy ). It was probably formed when two galaxies collided a billion years ago. However, it may have first started as a disk galaxy that captured matter from a passing galaxy. This material could have, over time, become "strung out" to form a rotating ring. [Wikipedia]
Canon EOS 6D (Modified)
Celestron C11 at f6.5 using a Lumicon focal reducer, cropped.
Tracked on a Sky-Watcher AZ-EQ6.
Guiding: None
Acquisition: Intervalometer
Polar Alignment: Polar Scope
Exposure: 130 x 30sec @ ISO-6400 (RAW)
Filter: IDAS Light pollution LPS-P2 2.00"
Imaged from suburbia on the 10th October with a 42% lit Moon.
NGC 660.
NGC 660 is a peculiar and unique polar-ring galaxy located approximately 45 million light-years from Earth in the Pisces constellation. It is the only such galaxy having, as its host, a "late-type lenticular galaxy", (lenticular is a type of galaxy intermediate between an elliptical and a spiral galaxy ). It was probably formed when two galaxies collided a billion years ago. However, it may have first started as a disk galaxy that captured matter from a passing galaxy. This material could have, over time, become "strung out" to form a rotating ring. [Wikipedia]
Canon EOS 6D (Modified)
Celestron C11 at f6.5 using a Lumicon focal reducer, cropped.
Tracked on a Sky-Watcher AZ-EQ6.
Guiding: None
Acquisition: Intervalometer
Polar Alignment: Polar Scope
Exposure: 130 x 30sec @ ISO-6400 (RAW)
Filter: IDAS Light pollution LPS-P2 2.00"
Imaged from suburbia on the 10th October with a 42% lit Moon.