NGC 3344 - new LSB galaxy discovered

[deeplook]

Hello altogether!

My friend Günter and I built an observatory in Upper Austria some time ago. Its one building with two roll off roofs, and a control room between them.
Inside, we use almost similar equipment - one scope for Luminance, one for RGB. This is why we named the observatory "GeMini East" and "GeMini West".

We decided to co-operate for some images to reach long exposure time. One of these objects was NGC 3344 in Leo Minor, a beautiful face on spiral galaxy.
We took it out of a list of galaxies that were suggested by Prof. Igor Karachentsev, a russian scientist whose special subject are dwarf galaxies.
There was a project formed named "TBG" (http://tbg.vdsastro.de/), which means "long exposed galaxies" and for this project we try to get deep images together.

The image og NGC 3344 was exposed over about 29h and there was a new low surface brightness dwarf galaxy discovered in the neighborhood of the main galaxy.
I think, the inverted image may help...:)

Image and information (http://www.deeplook.astronomie.at/ngc3344_basis.htm)

Best regards, Markus

[Paul Haese]

Beautiful image. Star colour, sharp detail and background all look good. Lots of distant galaxies. Who could want more.

[RickS]

Lovely image, Markus, and well done on the new discovery!

[multiweb]

Beautiful and colourful field. Really nice. :thumbsup::thumbsup::thumbsup:

[Retrograde]

Wow - congratulations on the discovery! A real achievement.
Great image too.

[strongmanmike]

Lovely image Markus, and what a magnificent little faint smudge that is too! :thumbsup: Although I see it is not confirmed as a physical association with NGC 3344 at this stage (these faint buggers need big telescopes under steady skies to do this well), it does look like it might be huh?

A really great project to be part of, I wish you luck in your search :thumbsup:

Mike

[Atmos]

Wonderful shot Markus! Big congrats on the galaxy discovery!