NGC 1398

Combination of 3, 3 minute exposures, SBIG ST-4 CCD camera.
300mm f/6 newtonian telescope at prime focus.

NGC 1398 is a large and bright, barred spiral galaxy in Fornax. It is a very easy object in an 8" telescope, and deserves to be much better known. In an 8" telescope it appears as a faint, circular patch of light with a bright centre.

Combination of 3, 5 minute exposures, Meade 416XTE CCD camera.
300mm f/6 newtonian telescope at prime focus.

Combination of 10, 3 minute exposures unfiltered.
SBIG STL-1001E CCD. 20" f/6.8 Dall-Kirkham cassegrain telescope at prime focus.