Galaxy in Ursa Major
NGC 2841 is described as a flocculent spiral galaxy because its arms have numerous fluffy segments rather than the smoother and more continous arms of traditional sprials. These arms surround a large and bright nucleus. The galaxy is large, estimated to be about 150,000 light years in diameter, about half again as large as our Milky Way galaxy.
I positioned the galaxy to the lower left in this image because my sky charts showed a swarm of small galaxies in the area to the upper right. These must be very dim and distant galaxies because only a few of them show up in this image. There is also a distant edge-on galaxy in the lower right corner, PGC 26363.
| Magnitude | 9.3 |
| Apparent Size | 8.1' x 3.5' |
| Distance (light yrs) | 46 million |
| Right Ascension | 9:22.0 |
| Declination | +50 59 |
| Field of View | 29' x 22' |
Image details: Exposure times of 48 minutes luminance and 24 minutes each of red, green and blue, taken with an SBIG STF-8300M imager and a 14" Meade LX850 telescope at f/6.
March 2019