Adam Block's Latest View of the Universe:
NGC 578
released 01/12/2021

Previous Release
The last time I visited this galaxy was 17 years ago. See the image at the bottom of this page for comparison. It is wonderful to see it again with a larger telescope and new processing techniques. Yet, even this many years later few others have paused on this galaxy to take a deep and high resolution image. Most remarkable is the (likely background) galaxy that appears in the disk of NGC 578. As is typical the spiral arms are adorned with pink and blue starforming regions. In addition the background universe is filled with other faraway galaxies... (see the largest version of the image to scroll around).
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Picture
  • Optics                                         32-inch Schulman Telescope (RCOS)
  • Camera                                       SBIG STX16803 CCD Camera 
  • Filters                                          Astrodon Gen II
  • Date                                             Fall 2017
  • Location                                      Mount Lemmon SkyCenter
  • Exposure                                     LRGB =  10   :  4  :  4  :  4  Hours ​
  • Acquisition                                  Astronomer Control Panel (ACP),  Maxim DL/CCD (Cyanogen), FlatMan XL (Alnitak)
  • Processing                                  PixInsight
  • Credit Line & Copyright            Adam Block /Mount Lemmon SkyCenter/University of Arizona​











See the original page and info for the image above.