Saturday, February 20, 2010

NGC 2903 - Dusty Barred Spiral

 
NGC 2903 is one of the brighter galaxies found in the late Winter/ early Spring and heralds the arrival of galaxy hunting season. It is a dusty spiral with a prominent bar. You can see it prominently in a scope 4" in diameter and up. 

This is a composite of 13 thirteen minute images shot with my ST7 using a .63 reducer on my 6" schmidt-cassegrain.


1 comment:

Polaris B said...

A very nice NGC 2903! Looks like you are shooting well at around 1000mm. Congrats.