NGC 2841in Ursa Major.

I haven't published any pictures for quite some time. This is primarily down to spending most of my time alternating between asteroid and supernova surveys. However while rooting through some data I remembered this which I had captured but not finished.

NGC2841 is a lovely tighly wound spiral in Ursa Major. It has an integrated magnitude of +9.2. It's 42 million light years

Here's the pic (be sure to click on the image for the full size)
www.webtreatz.com/gallery/displayimage.php?pos=-88

The image itself contains 3hours of luminance combined with 90mins each of RGB. The colour was then G2V calibrated.

Equipment was C14 @ f/5.0 (Optec Nextgen focal reducer), AP1200, SBIG ST8 and CFW9 filter wheel with Astronomik LRGB filters.

Hope you like it.

Dave.

Lovely work Dave! Well done.

Michael.

Hi Dave, that's a lovely spiral alright, thanks for posting. Obviously it has'nt been in a gravitational dance with anything nearby, it's almost perfectly wound, with lots of blue stars.

Keith.