Observations of UGC 3697
These are the observations available for UGC 3697. If you have any of your own that you'd like to submit we'd love to put them on the website.
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The Integral Sign Galaxy (UGC 3697) in Camelopardalis
This is a magnitude 13.68 galaxy in Camelopardalis. UGC 3697 is an edge-on spiral 'super-thin' galaxy with warped arms located approximately 151 million light-years away.
Scientists believe the warping is the result of interaction with the dwarf galaxy UGC 3714, the (magnitude 12.6) round spiral galaxy below and to the left (east) of UGC 3697.
There are many other faint galaxies in this image, including PGC213372, the magnitude 17.7, face-on galaxy to the right and just below UGC3714.
This image of the Integral Sign Galaxy (UGC 3697) was provided by David Davies and taken from Cambridge in the UK. To see more of David's work please visit his Flickr Photostream. Click on the image for the larger version. One of the challenges in capturing and processing this image is the presence of the two, bright orange stars. HD54070, to the left, is an orange star (B-V 1.1) of magnitude 6.3, and HD52762 is a magnitude 7 star of a slightly deeper orange hue (B-V 1.3). By comparison, the three blue-white stars to the left of UGC 3697 are magnitude 10 to 11.
Image Details
- Telescope: 8" Ritchey-Chretien at 1660mm focal length.
- Camera: QSI 683 with Astrodon filters.
- Mount: Skywatcher EQ8.
Image data were captured on the evenings of 17th to 27th February 2020. The data comprise 24 x 5-minutes luminance and 6 x 10-minutes each of RGB.
David Davies - (2 March 2020).
