Eye of Sauron Galaxy: NGC4151 with Active Galactic Nucleus

Eye of Sauron Galaxy: NGC4151 with Active Galactic Nucleus

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Eye of Sauron Galaxy: NGC4151 with Active Galactic Nucleus
We would love to have you in the community: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCHeW7wuxfjhMmymXC9KqIbg/join Link to Astrobin: https://astrob.in/4mga1v/0/ What self respecting nerd would see something called the Eye of Sauron and NOT want to image it?!?! I knew there was probably some dim arms to it so spent a good amount of time capturing Lum data and as always I like to capture a good amount of Ha on any galaxy just to see if I can see anything hidden or *fingers crossed* something unknown. Nothing not unknown to science in this one but completely unknown to me during imaging and was very intrigued during the post processing. Continuum subtracting I saw the expected knots of emission in NGC4145 but the structure in the Eye of Sauron was soo different. Not the normal knots but almost arm like in structure. That led me to find an article in 2011 from Astronomy Magazine on it: https://www.astronomy.com/science/ngc-4151-an-active-black-hole-in-the-eye-of-sauron/ I had no idea this was an active galactic nucleus. I had to take their image and align it to mine and low and behold that structure is the emission jets from the galactic black hole that is beating at its core!! Looking for astronomy gear? Use my links to Agena Astro or High Point Scientific and support the channel! https://agenaastro.com/?rfsn=8135169.ac4de7 https://www.highpointscientific.com/?rfsn=8137176.78720d