Note. Color balance edited 16.09.
NGC 55, barred irregular galaxy in constellation Sculptor. Distance about 7 million light years.
Closeup
When I was stacking the Luminance channel of NGC55, I noticed two moving objects in a field.
I made animations of them to show the movement. It could be nice to know, what they are. When I'll find out,
I'll post the information here!
UPDATE
A friend in Finnish astronomical group, "Astronetti", found the information for objects by using the "Minor Planet Checker" Here is the information for both objects:
Object designation R.A. Decl. V Offsets Motion/hr Orbit Further observations?
(20031) 1992 OO 00 14 06.8 -39 17 11 15.7 9.0W 5.4S 20- 35- 12o None needed at this time.
2005 UD530 00 13 51.8 -39 13 53 19.7 11.9W 2.1S 33- 0+ 3o Desirable between 2010 Sept.
15-Oct. 15.
Animated areas are marked in this single 600s luminance frame.
Information:
Location, Brisbane Australia
Date, 14.09.2010
Time Zone, UTC +10h
The animation has13 x 600s frames, taken between 10:25 and 13:31 UTC.
The whole field animated showing both moving objects. First object at Two a clock position and the second one at Eight a clock position.
Closeup animation of first object.
An animated closeup of the second object.
It's always fascinating to see something moving in a deep space! An other part of fun is trying to find out, what it might be.
Technical details:
16" RCOS ja Apogee U9000 camera.
LRGB combo. An Australian remote telescope
13x600s for the Luminance and 3x600s / RGB-channel . Dark, Bias and Flat calibrated.
Raw data is shared by Petri Kehusmaa and J-P Metsavainio
Processing workflow:
Image acquisition, MaxiDL v4.xxx
Stacked and calibrated in CCDStack.
Deconvolution with a CCDSharp, 30 iterations.
Levels, curves and color combine in PS CS3.
A general note:
Seeing was really bad during the imaging sequence, FWHM varied between 8" -5,5"
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