NGC 3184 – the Little Pinwheel galaxy
Description:
NGC 3184 is a face-on spiral galaxy 40 million light-years away located in the constellation Ursa Major. It is considered a low surface brightness galaxy.
Its nickname comes from the fact that it resembles the galaxy M101, the Pinwheel Galaxy, which is also located in Ursa Major.
Technical details:
Telescope: Celestron Edge HD14 with a 0.7x focal reducer
Mount: Paramount MX+
Camera: ZWO ASI 1600MM in bin 2×2 mode
Filters ZWO LRGB
Exposures: 14 x 6 minutes and 3 x 10 min with a luminance filter, and 23 poses x 10 minutes with a red, green, and blue filter
Location: Backyard observatory in Ste-Sophie, Quebec
Date: March 2019
