| Catalogue and alternative designations | NGC
2997
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| Type | Spiral Galaxy |
| Position | 09 45.6, -31.11 |
| Constellation | Antlia |
| Camera and Telescope | STL11000M and 31.75 cm Ritchey Chretien |
| Focal Ratio | F9 |
| Exposure Details | LRGB 240:120:100:120. 100 minutes of Hydrogen Alpha was blended in later. Astrodon filters were used and all images were unbinned. |
| Description | This
spiral galaxy is fairly large at
5' x 4' but the surface
brightness is reasonably low.
The integrated magnitude is 9.4.
The distance is estimated at 10
million parsecs.
NGC 2997 first became widely known to the imaging community when David Malin photographed it with the Anglo Australian Telescope.
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