NGC 3344 aka The Sliced Onion Galaxy (CCDMike)

Celestial hemisphere: Northern · Constellation: Leo Minor (LMi) · Contains: NGC 3344 · PGC 142976 · PGC 142977 · PGC 142978 · PGC 142979 · PGC 1710162 · PGC 1712536 · PGC 1713409 · PGC 1713849 · PGC 1715088 · PGC 1715338 · PGC 1715561 · PGC 1716478 · PGC 1717126 · PGC 1717186 · PGC 1718221 · PGC 1718878 · PGC 1718896 · PGC 1719450 · PGC 1720240 · PGC 1721382 · PGC 1722916 · PGC 1722966 · PGC 1723912 · PGC 1724932 · PGC 1726282 · PGC 1727046 · PGC 1729845

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NGC 3344 aka The Sliced Onion Galaxy

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NGC 3344 aka The Sliced Onion Galaxy

NGC 3344 is a wonderfully structured face-on galaxy in Leo Minor.

I wanted to have it in my collection and was able to shoot 300s subs because PHD2's new Multi Star Guiding now gives me a wider range with even longer exposure times.

Starting with my typical 120 sec subs, but switched to the 300 sec for the rest of the night, which was very helpful in getting good results. I did have to sort out some frames because of wind, but stacking in the APP is much less time consuming now ;-)

I saw Morris had the same target, too (Greetings, Morris ;-).

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RA (center)	10h43m26s.257
RA (top/left)	10h45m30s.828
RA (top/right)	10h41m46s.652
RA (bottom/right)	10h41m21s.918
RA (bottom/left)	10h45m05s.100

Dec (center)	+24°53′28″.63
Dec (top/left)	+25°08′21″.25
Dec (top/right)	+25°16′05″.40
Dec (bottom/right)	+24°38′30″.16
Dec (bottom/left)	+24°30′49″.19

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