When I first saw the black and white image of this object in the Vickers CCD atlas, I knew I would want to shoot this one in color someday. This beautiful spiral is in Aries, a little ventured part of the sky, and at magnitude 11.1, is bright for CCD standards. This class Sb spiral is 7x4 arcmins in size, and has a B-V index of .78, quite red for a galaxy. Few if any HII regions appear in the arms of this object, they are well below the required 2 seconds in size to resolve. This is also listed in Arps peculiar galaxies as number 78.

Instrument:  12.5" f/5 Home made Newtonian
CCD Camera:  SBIG ST7E w/Enhanced Cooling
Exposure:  LRGB = 60:20:20:36 (RGB Binned 2x2)
Filters:  RGB Tricolor
Location:  Payson, Arizona
Elevation:  5150 ft.
Sky:  Seeing 8/10, Transparency 8/10
Outside Temperature:  21 C
CCD Temperature:  -20 C
Processing:  Maxim DL, Photoshop, PW Pro.