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NGC3310 is a very disturbed (Arp) starburst galaxy in UMA, with heavy young blue star formation around an extremely bright core. Most of the activity is tightly bound to the core area, and a prominent jet pierces the outer arm in the 10 o'clock position. NGC3310 has one of the brightest cores among galaxies and is about 59 MLY distant. The very bright core and a honking 5.5 mag star with multiple reflections to be cleaned up (can you find it?) made this a difficult one to process. Imaged with the 12.5" RCOS Truss at f9 on an ME mount using an STL6303E SBIG camera guided off-axis with the SBIG guide camera. Tru-Balance LRGB Gen II 2" filters. LRGB:480:150:180:240.

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Comment by Charles Dunlop on April 18, 2011 at 8:06pm
that's cool. That's a difficult image to shoot and to process. nice shot.
Comment by Tom Harrison on March 1, 2011 at 1:04am
Thank you, spike77, and Louie for looking and your nice comments!

Tom
Comment by spike77 on February 28, 2011 at 7:17pm
cool man i like it havent seen this one before
Comment by Tom Harrison on February 28, 2011 at 10:02am
Thank you, Mark. Yes, the ME is sweet.

Tom

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