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", 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
Best regards, Markus
