This is an image of NGC2841. It is an unbarred spiral galaxy about 46 million light years away in the constellation Ursa Major. It is about 150,000 light years in diameter, making it larger than our own Milky Way galaxy. It is a prototypical flocculent spiral galaxy, a type of spiral galaxy whose arms are patchy and discontinuous.
March 5 - April 14, 2018
Location: Dark Sky New Mexico
Telescope: Planewave CDK-17
Camera: FLI PL16803
Mount: Paramount ME
Luminance: 27x20 minutes (binned 1x1)
Red: 12x15 minutes (binned 2x2)
Green: 12x15 minutes (binned 2x2)
Blue: 12x15 minutes (binned 2x2)