NGC 4236

Dan Crowson

Animas, New Mexico

Imaged from Dardenne Prairie, Missouri (a red zone) on December 28th, 2014, February 27th and March 16th, 2016 with a SBIG ST-8300M on an Astro-Tech AT90DT at f/6.7 603mm.

LRGB – https://www.flickr.com/photos/dcrowson/25557354944/sizes/l

NGC 4236 (UGC 7306, Caldwell 3 and others) is a faint barred spiral located approximately 12 million light-years away in Draco. It is part of the M81 Group of galaxies.

Luminance – 16x600s – 160 minutes – binned 1×1
RGB – 8x300s – 40 minutes each – binned 2×2

280 minutes total exposure –4 hours 40 minutes

2016-04-06T00:00:00