Celestial hemisphere:  Northern  ·  Constellation: Ursa Major (UMa)  ·  Contains:  HD89053  ·  NGC 3179  ·  NGC 3181  ·  NGC 3184  ·  PGC 2173528  ·  PGC 2173632  ·  PGC 2173804  ·  PGC 2173829  ·  PGC 2173983  ·  PGC 2174014  ·  PGC 2174058  ·  PGC 2174183  ·  PGC 2174342  ·  PGC 2174414  ·  PGC 2174457  ·  PGC 2175532  ·  PGC 2175584  ·  PGC 2176189  ·  PGC 2176964  ·  PGC 2181848  ·  PGC 2183464  ·  PGC 2185257  ·  PGC 2185741  ·  PGC 2186561  ·  PGC 3095935
Getting plate-solving status, please wait...
NGC3184 The Little Pinwheel Galaxy, David Moore
Powered byPixInsight

NGC3184 The Little Pinwheel Galaxy

Getting plate-solving status, please wait...
NGC3184 The Little Pinwheel Galaxy, David Moore
Powered byPixInsight

NGC3184 The Little Pinwheel Galaxy

Equipment

Loading...

Acquisition details

Loading...

Description

The Little Pinwheel Galaxy is a spiral galaxy in Ursa Major. The blue colour in the arms come mostly from bright young blue stars.
It is about 40 million light years away. It contains a few supernova. Top left shows a cluster of faint galaxies.

Comments

Sky plot

Sky plot

Histogram

NGC3184 The Little Pinwheel Galaxy, David Moore