Celestial hemisphere:  Northern  ·  Constellation: Leo Minor (LMi)  ·  Contains:  NGC 3486
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NGC 3486, Neal Weston
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NGC 3486

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NGC 3486, Neal Weston
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NGC 3486

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Spiral galaxy NGC 3486 in Leo Minor. A rather pretty barred spiral with an inner ring at around 27 M ly distance.
Taken binned 2x2 with the GSO 10" in order to collect enough light with my oversampled setup. I then drizzled the image to x2 size although I didn't notice any difference from if I just upsampled the original. Also in a break with tradition I took a a lot of short subs in order to avoid guiding.
I've upped the saturation on this one quite a bit to add some extra punch so may not be totally realistic.

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NGC 3486, Neal Weston