The Meathook Galaxy by Kfir Simon

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The Meathook Galaxy

NGC 2442 / 2443 or commonly known as the Meathook Galaxy is an intermediate spiral galaxy about 50 million light-years away in the constellation Volans.
Associated with this galaxy is HIPASS J0731-69, a cloud of gas devoid of any stars.
It is likely that the cloud was torn loose from NGC 2442 by a companion (WIKI)

At he bottom we can see the galaxy NGC 2434

L-RGB image

Lum- 120 min (Bin 1)
RGB - 30 min each (BIN 2)

Total of 3.5 HRS

Telescope: ASA 12" f 3.6 Astrograph
Camera: FLI MicroLine 8300 CCD-camera

Imaged from Tivoli farm in Namibia June 2014

FLI-New
full exif

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Sakib		02-Apr-2015 22:24
This is possibly the best amateur image of this galaxy! I do prefer it north up however.

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