NGC 925 Amatha Galaxy ...the 'other' Triangulum galaxy

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NGC 925 Amatha Galaxy ...the 'other' Triangulum galaxy

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The most famous galaxy in Triangulum is M33, also know as the Triangulum Galaxy.

There is another very nice, fairly large, but dimmer galaxy in Triangulum... NGC 925 the Amatha Galaxy. NGC 925 is a barred spiral galaxy part of the NGC 1023 group.

Last night I was able to image NGC 925 (Amatha Galaxy) in Triangulum. I took 200 images of 2 minutes. This time I utilized my CPC1100 SCT and ZWO ASI 071 for the imaging. I used Images Plus to do the stacking and processing.


Roger
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Re: NGC 925 Amatha Galaxy ...the 'other' Triangulum galaxy

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Very interesting image, Roger. It even seems to bear some resemblance to M33. I also noticed you caught at least two other galaxies ( top left- top right). Are these part of the NGC1023 group?

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Re: NGC 925 Amatha Galaxy ...the 'other' Triangulum galaxy

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Tom

I do see those two other galaxies, and yes they are part of the NGC 1023 galaxy group. The NGC 1023 galaxy group supposedly contains 13 galaxies.

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Re: NGC 925 Amatha Galaxy ...the 'other' Triangulum galaxy

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Roger, very nice image of a galaxy I wasn't aware of. Just checked it out in Stellarium and would be a good fit for my C8 w/o a focal reducer, once I get it back in operation. Thanks for sharing.
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