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The galaxy NGC 2336 lies at approximately 100 million light years from our planet, located in the constellation Camelopardalis, the Giraffe. According to NASA, NGC 2336 stretches an immense 200,000 light years across. To the lower right lies the intermediate galaxy IC 467, which is also 100 million light years from Earth.

The image was captured using the ASI2600 CMOS one-shot color camera and 60 minutes of exposure time with a camera temperature of -28.3 Celsius.

The telescope used was the Explore Scientific ED 165 mm APO Airspace Triplet refractor and Starizona 0.65x reducer & flattener Apex. ED-L version. Unfortunately there were no calibrated frames used or a light pollution (LPO) filter.

NGC 2336 information is courtesy of NASA – Solar System and Beyond, March 5, 2021.
https://www.nasa.gov/image-feature/goddard/2021/hubble-beholds-a-big-beautiful-blue-galaxy

Very special capture. Love the spiral structure of the galaxy :)