I've finally knocked up a picture of something other than an S0 galaxy, this is of another early-type galaxy, so still a bit dull looking. The galaxy NGC 3923 is an elliptical galaxy with some fairly obvious shell structures (click on the image for a larger version). I'm working on some Gemini data for this galaxy now, hopefully we will have the paper sorted in a month or two. This picture was created from g', r' and i' images from the GMOS instrument on the Gemini-South telescope in Chile.
Interesting things to note in this picture other than the shells are the two cool redshift ~0.3 spiral galaxies towards the south east, and again plenty of Globular Clusters in the halo of the galaxy.
![](http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/3460/3672/320/n3923_gmos_centre.jpg)
Interesting things to note in this picture other than the shells are the two cool redshift ~0.3 spiral galaxies towards the south east, and again plenty of Globular Clusters in the halo of the galaxy.
![](http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/3460/3672/320/n3923_gmos_centre.jpg)
"Dull looking"?!?! Explain the origin of the boxy isophotes to me ;-)
ReplyDeleteMark, would it not be better to post pics of naked lasses?
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