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strongmanmike2002 | all galleries >> Images taken from Wallaroo (2012-2021) >> Orion Optics UK AG12 - High resolution imaging >> NGC 1316 Interacting galaxies in Fornax > NGC1316 new faint outer shells, fainter than 30 mag/squ arc sec
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26-Nov-2020 Main Image FOV 38' X 30'

NGC1316 new faint outer shells, fainter than 30 mag/squ arc sec

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Extremely faint features, first identified by E. Iodice et al, using deep images taken with the
2.6m Optical Survey telescope at Cerro Paranal Chile and announced in a paper only as recently
as 2017, have all been picked up in my (moderately stretched) data. Unbelievably, features fainter than
30 mag/squ arc sec (labelled L9 above), can be identified in my data, which is about 2000X fainter
than the central regions of the galaxy, which is all rather astounding really!

Here is a link to the paper: https://www.eso.org/public/archives/releases/sciencepapers/eso1734/eso1734a.pdf


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