Spaceimages - Astrofotografie by Jens Zippel

NGC 3344 is about 25 million light years away from Earth, has an angular expansion of 7.2 × 6.9 arc minutes and an apparent brightness of 9.7 mag. It was discovered on 6 April 1785 by the German-British astronomer Wilhelm Herschel.

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Object:	NGC 3344
Date of exposures:	17.02.2018, 23.02.2018, 24.02.2018
Distance:	25 Mio. Lightyears
Exposures:	Lum: 59 x 420 Sec., RGB: 126 x 360 Sec., Sum: 21,0 hrs.
Telescope:	10'', F4 Newton
Focal length:	1000 mm
Filter:	Astrodon LRGB E-Series, Astronomik CCD CLS
Camera:	Atik 460Exm
Guiding:	Off Axis Guider, Lodestar
Mount:	EQ8

NGC 3344 is a spiral galaxy and belongs to a group in the constellation Little Lion, a branch of the Virgo Supercluster. NGC 3344 has the morphological classification (R)SAB (r)bc, which indicates that it is a slightly barred spiral galaxy with rings and moderately to loosely wound spiral arms. There is both an inner and an outer ring, with the protruding arms radiating outwards from the inner ring and the slightly elliptical beam lying inside. In the middle of the beam there is a HII core with an angle diameter of about 3".

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