This
Astrobin Debut Object is a small barred grand design spiral galaxy located 45 million light years away in the constellation of Virgo at a declination of -8 degrees. It is a magnitude 13.2 galaxy which spans 6 arc-minutes in our apparent view. This corresponds to a diameter of 80,000 light years. From our view perspective, the disk is inclined about 25 degrees from edge-on.
Because the galaxy is relatively close, we can see a lot of disk detail including dark lanes, star clouds and HII regions. The glorious pair of arms extend out for 360 degrees from the long bar.
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Reminder – This object and 3100 more are included in the
Imm Deep Sky Compendium, a free planning resource to help astrophotographers find interesting targets in their night sky. Foreign language translations in Spanish, German, French, Italian, Polish, and Chinese are now available at the link above.
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