Spiral galaxy NGC 2403

Posted by dcrowson
on Friday, April 8, 2016

NGC 2403 is an intermediate (between barred and unbarred) spiral galaxy approximately 8 million light-years away in Camelopardalis.

Luminance – 18x600s – 2180 minutes – binned 1x1
RGB – 8x300s – 40 minutes each – binned 2x2

300 minutes total exposure – 5 hours

Imaged February 5th and 11th, 2016 from Rancho Hidalgo (Animas, New Mexico) with a SBIG STF-8300M on an Astro-Tech AT12RCT at f/8 2432mm.

LRGB - https://www.flickr.com/photos/dcrowson/26311641465/sizes/l

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