Using the ESO 3.6 metre, Subaru 8 metre and the Hubble Space telescope, Max Spolaor
and his team a Swinburne University have examined NGC 1407 in some detail.
It is thought to contain a supermassive black hole at its centre,
weighing some 1 billion solar masses.
This 60 minute exposure taken with a 0.4 metre telescope in urban skies
show some very faint globlular clusters within the galaxy plus
objects in the surrounding field, just shy of 20th magnitude.
Equipment set-up
Software Bisque
6x 10 minute exposures, Clear filter only
Data capture CCDops, Calibration MaxIm CCD, Processing PixInsight, Photoschop CC 2017
Copyright Peter J Ward 2016 ,2017
Can you see all 26 grey scales above?