NGC 3718 and Friends - A Labour of Love from London (Hamza Ilyas @Muslimastronomer)

Celestial hemisphere: Northern · Constellation: Ursa Major (UMa) · Contains: NGC 3718 · NGC 3729

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NGC 3718 and Friends - A Labour of Love from London

This project has been an effort of love. Imaged over 5 nights in March/April 2022, sadly plagued with high clouds all throughout and later, I had an issue with the flats. The plan went downhill from there! Captured from my front garden with my dual EQ6-R pro rigs, C8 capturing OSC data and luminance data captured with my 9.25 EHD. It is already tough doing broadband imaging from London but capturing the highlight of this galaxy - that is, the faint halo, created mission impossible. Anyway, I'm happy to finally put this one to bed until next time.

"NGC 3718 is a highly disturbed spiral galaxy with an unusual, warped shape that looks a bit like a plump letter “s” from Earth, with a thin thread of dark dust snaking through it. NGC 3718 shows the sinuous, twisting dust lane in detail as it sweeps by the core of the galaxy and curves into the surrounding gas. Both the galaxy’s gas and dust lane are similarly distorted into this unique configuration.

The nucleus of the galaxy is extremely hard to detect in either visible or ultraviolet light because the prominent dust lane blocks much of those wavelengths, but it can be seen when viewing infrared light, which passes through dusty regions. NGC 3718, also called Arp 214, is thought to get its unusual shape from gravitational interaction with nearby galaxy NGC 3729, another spiral galaxy located approximately 150,000 light-years away. Among the features likely caused by this interaction are the line of reddish star formation that extends toward the 9 o’clock position, and the dark tendril of dust that reaches toward the 7 o’clock position." (NASA)

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RA (center)	11h33m03s.698
RA (top/left)	11h32m11s.495
RA (top/right)	11h34m01s.385
RA (bottom/right)	11h33m56s.421
RA (bottom/left)	11h32m05s.649

Dec (center)	+53°03′24″.89
Dec (top/left)	+52°54′35″.43
Dec (top/right)	+52°55′25″.38
Dec (bottom/right)	+53°12′13″.65
Dec (bottom/left)	+53°11′23″.51

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