And whilst the seestars were spotting nebulae, the RedCat was staring at galaxies for a few hours.
This is a part of the Fornax cluster. Its most famous member is the barred spiral of NGC1365, just left of center.
Not too far away in the sky, but all the way over at bottom right here, sits Fornax A, a giant elliptical galaxy with visible shells of stars around it. The shells of stars mean that it has interacted with and probably eaten other galaxies.
The name means it is the most radio-bright thing in Fornax, so it probably has a supermassive black hole at its center that is actively munching things.
Also note the little galaxy at middle right, that looks like it has a ring around it. That is generally a sign of a direct hit by another galaxy.
The densest part of the cluster sits towards the top left. There is much more to it, but my camera sensor is too small to catch it all at this focal length :-)
120 x 60 seconds with a RedCat 61, UV/IR cut filter and ASI294MC Pro camera on an AM5. Stacked and processed in siril, with rc-astro tools.
