I imaged this galaxy recently with my Mak:
https://www.astrobin.com/72jm8x/ And I am surprised how well the Mak performed @f11 compared to this small newton @f5 with much longer exposure time - but different cameras.
Maybe I will continue the Maksutov-project in the future, we will see, maybe I will start a different experiment.
I planned to make Luminance exposures, too. But every time the moon was up bright in the sky when the clouds went away, and it seems there is no chance in the near future for moonless clear skies.
NGC 2146:Friedrich August Theodor Winnecke discovered this peculiar galaxy in 1876. It is a barred spiral galaxy in the constellation Camleopardis, galaxy type SB(S)ab pec.
The galaxy's most conspicuous feature is the dusty lanes of a spiral arm lying across the core of the galaxy as seen from Earth, the arm having been bent 45 degrees by a close encounter with a smaller galaxy possibly NGC 2146a about 0.8 billion years ago.This close encounter is credited with the relatively high rates of star formation that qualify NGC 2146 as a starburst galaxy. It has a diameter of 70,000 - 80,000 lyr.It has been host to two known supernova events 2005 and 2018.
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