Celestial hemisphere:  Northern  ·  Constellation: Ursa Major (UMa)  ·  Contains:  NGC 3718  ·  NGC 3729
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NGC 3718 / Arp 214, Roger Nichol
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NGC 3718 / Arp 214

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NGC 3718 / Arp 214, Roger Nichol
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NGC 3718 / Arp 214

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This is a work in progress that needs many more hours. Due to the short nights now, and this being my secondary target to shoot while I wait for the North America Nebula to come into sight, it is going to take a while longer. So here is an interim first draft with just over 3 hours.

It is a small target for 550mm focal length, so I have 3x drizzled and cropped to 1/9th of the resultant image size.

NGC3718 / Arp 214 is a twisted spiral galaxy located approximately 52 million light years from Earth. It has an unusual shape due to interaction with the nearby galaxy NGC 3729. The small group of interacting galaxies below is the Hickson Compact Group 56 (aka Arp 322), which is estimated to be around 425 million light years distant.

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NGC 3718 / Arp 214, Roger Nichol