NGC 1385 is a strange spiral galaxy in the constellation Fornax. Originally a normal spiral, interaction with other galaxies nearby distorted its shape. The center of the galaxy was pulled and rotated 90 degrees to the shape it appears in now.
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All data was taken from the PHANGS-HST observation program. https://phangs.stsci.edu/
Red: 814w
Green: 555w
Blue: 438w. 336w, 275wProcessing:
- Crop stacking artifacts
- TGV+MMT denoise each channel
- Channel combine
- ArcinH stretch
- HDR multiscale transform
- MMT+Curves transformation
- Dark structure enhance
- LHE
- Curves trasnformation