Celestial hemisphere:  Northern  ·  Constellation: Camelopardalis (Cam)  ·  Contains:  NGC 2403  ·  NGC 2404
NGC 2403 Spiral Galaxy @ Fullmoon, Gebhard Maurer
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NGC 2403 Spiral Galaxy @ Fullmoon

NGC 2403 Spiral Galaxy @ Fullmoon, Gebhard Maurer
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NGC 2403 Spiral Galaxy @ Fullmoon

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This was a test shot by nearly full moon and I was very happy to see the galaxy with so much details in my scope.

NGC 2403 (also known as Caldwell 7) is an intermediate spiral galaxy in the constellation Camelopardalis. It is an outlying member of the M81 Group, and is approximately 8 million light-years distant. It bears a similarity to M33, being about 50,000 light years in diameter and containing numerous star-forming H II regions. The northern spiral arm connects it to the star forming region NGC 2404. NGC 2403 can be observed using 10×50 binoculars. NGC 2404 is 2000 light-years in diameter, making it one of the largest known H II regions, even larger than Tarantula Nebula in Large Magellanic Cloud. This H II region represents striking similarity with NGC 604 in M33, both in size and location in galaxy.

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NGC 2403 Spiral Galaxy @ Fullmoon, Gebhard Maurer