Object	NGC 1365
Info	NGC 1365 is one of the most prominent "barred" galaxies in the sky. It is a supergiant galaxy with a diameter of about 200,000 lightyears, located in the southern constellation of Fornax. It's a major member of the Fornax Cluster of Galaxies. It's distance is about 60 million light-years away. A massive straight bar runs through this galaxy and contains the nucleus at the centre. It consists mostly of older stars that give a reddish/ brown colour to the bar. The gravitational forces exuded from the bar cause interstellar gas and dust clouds to form the pair of spiral arms that extend from the ends of the bar. Young luminous hot stars, born out of the interstellar clouds, give these arms a prominent appearance and a blue colour. As seen from Earth, the galaxy rotates clockwise and takes 350million years to complete one full turn calculated by its radial velocity of 1632 km/sec.
Date	Lum 28/ 8/ 06- rgb17/ 9/ 06
Location	BayTop Observatory- Streaky Bay South Australia
Instrument	Orion 80ED refractor working @ f7.5/ 600 FL               2.3 arcsec/pixel
Mount	Celestron CI700 controlled by a Mel Bartels Goto Control System with Vexta PK264m-01b motors with a pulley and belt system
Camera (CCD)	Starlight Xpress HX916 monochrome CCD with Atik manual filter wheel.
Exposures	L: 76' R:28' G:28' B:28'  (4min sub exposures all unbinned)     No dark frames removed.
Guiding	Skywatcher ST 80mm f5 with a Starlight Xpress MX515 CCD. Mounted via a side by side accessory plate.
Filters	Astronomik typeII clr  RGB filter set
Notes/ Conditions	Reasonable weather conditions when I decided to turn the scope onto this object for a lumenance run after collecting some quick colour on another object. Seeing was average to good.  The conditions when taking the rgb was quite poor with thin cloud drifting in and out. Lots of star scintillation all over the sky. Had gradients to remove. Image reduced to 85% of original.