NGC 972
(image up-sampled 1.5x)
Aries
Penryn, California
October 2008
FS-128 (ag, ST-4)
ST-2000XM LRGB 10 minute subs
NGC 972 is classified Sab and has a red shift
distance of 69 Mly. Morphology is attributed to a past encounter
with a gas rich galaxy, the star forming region and the prominent dust lane is
tilted with respect to the galactic plane.
