This is a rarely image galaxy in Hydra. It's surprisingly 180 million light years away, so its apparent dimensions are rather modest, listed at 4.2' X 3.5' in size. In this image however its faintest extensions cover an area closer to 7' X 6'.
There appears to be little to no HII regions visible, probably because of the great distance but also the low level of colour data I collected may have played a part here too?..I really needed to collect some more red data and then perhaps some little flecks of red HII would have revealed themselves, but I was keen to make it a single night image
All data was collected in a single night, 7hrs in total but 3 sub frames were rejected due to poor seeing and an easterly wind blowing directly into the dome opening and buffeting the OTA (it is actually a rare thing for me to have to chuck sub frames
).
I like the complex structure of the skinny arms...reminds me of a Huntsman spider for some reason...
There is some capture info under the image, hope you enjoy something most haven't seen before...lots of cool distant stuff floating around in the background too
NGC 3313 in Hydra (Click on image to enlarge)
The full frame full res version is
here
Mike