Celestial hemisphere:  Southern  ·  Constellation: Leo (Leo)  ·  Contains:  NGC 3521
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NGC3521 (Bubble Nebula), richard bamfield
NGC3521 (Bubble Nebula)
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NGC3521 (Bubble Nebula)

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NGC3521 (Bubble Nebula), richard bamfield
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NGC3521 (Bubble Nebula)

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A very fuzzy galaxy indeed. This galaxy is a member of a class of galaxies known as flocculent spirals. Like other flocculent galaxies, NGC 3521 lacks the clearly defined, arcing structure to its spiral arms, and patches of stars and dust show up here and there throughout their disks.
This was quite a challenge to process and could do with some more data. I'd taken two nights, but the 1st night the stars trailed too much. Odd, I'm thinking as I've got my scope on a big fast pillar in my observatory. Well, the next night I checked the polar alignment, as it was out quite a bit. Moral of the story, if you change scopes, check your polar alignment, it's still possible to knock it out even in a permanent mount. So just got one night's data (5hrs) so far.

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NGC3521 (Bubble Nebula), richard bamfield