NGC 2841 The Tiger's Eye Galaxy (Barry Wilson)

Celestial hemisphere: Northern · Constellation: Ursa Major (UMa) · Contains: 37 Lyn · NGC 2841

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NGC 2841 The Tiger's Eye Galaxy

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NGC 2841 The Tiger's Eye Galaxy

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Imaged over the last few weeks from my home observatory with good seeing in general, just managing to gather enough data as it passed its optimal imaging altitude from my location. From Wikipedia: "NGC 2841 is an inclined, unbarred, spiral galaxy in the constellation Ursa Major that exhibits a prominent inner ring structure. It was discovered on 9 March 1788 by William Herschel.[2] Initially thought to be about 30 million light-years distant, a 2001 Hubble Space Telescope survey of the galaxy's Cepheid variables determined its distance to be approximately 14.1 megaparsecs or 46 million light-years."

I have also seen this galaxy referred to as the Tiger's Eye Galaxy and I have seen quite a broad range of colour palette representations on the web: from yellow/orange to orange to yellow core and blue spiral arms. My own colour calibration (whether Photometric or the Colour Calibration tool) gave an orange tone across the whole galaxy and certainly there was no blue lurking in the spiral arms. I have therefore been faithful to my calibration but do not have any real confidence in an accurate colour palette.

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RA (center)	09h22m02s.25
RA (top/left)	09h20m24s.16
RA (top/right)	09h20m28s.54
RA (bottom/right)	09h23m38s.82
RA (bottom/left)	09h23m37s.43

Dec (center)	+50°58′56″.1
Dec (top/left)	+51°19′54″.5
Dec (top/right)	+50°37′33″.3
Dec (bottom/right)	+50°37′52″.7
Dec (bottom/left)	+51°20′14″.1

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