NGC 3184 The Little Pinwheel (Pete Bouras)

Celestial hemisphere: Northern · Constellation: Ursa Major (UMa) · Contains: 34 UMa) · NGC 3181 · NGC 3184 · The star Tania Australis (μ UMa

NGC 3184 The Little Pinwheel, Pete Bouras

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NGC 3184 The Little Pinwheel

Shooting a widefield target with my SVX80, and with only one night due to more cloudy rainy weather moving in , and a window to shoot between my primary target and C/2022 E3,
I decided to image this little gem, from my Bortle 5 home.
Standard RGB processing, using SPCC, GHS for the stretch with curves, BlurX and NoiseX.
One nice thing about GHS is that it allows the core of the stars to be differentiated from the halo (bad if you don't like halos... LOL), instead of the bright stars being blown out in the stretch.

Thanks for looking
Clear Skies!
-Pete

The bright 3.1mag orange star is Tania Australis also known as Mu Ursae Majoris or 34 Ursae.

NGC 3184 (sometimes indicated as NGC 3180), the Little Pinwheel Galaxy, is a spiral galaxy approximately 40 million light-years away in the constellation Ursa Major. It has two HII regions named NGC 3180 and NGC 3181. The blue color of its spiral arms comes mostly from relatively few bright young blue stars. The bright stars that highlight the arms were created in huge density waves that circle the center. (Wikipedia)

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