PGC 3990 The not so great spiral galaxy in Andromeda

[tomato]

Located about 6 degrees west of M31 is PGC 3990, magnitude 13.8 and about 1.5 arc minutes wide. I can't find out much about it except it is 283M light years distant so ~120x further away than M31. Despite that it is showing enough size and structure for me to spot it on the DSS overlay in Stellarium, so I thought it deserved it's 15 minutes of fame, thanks for looking.

Captured with the Esprit 150/ASI178 dual rig, 10.6 hrs integration, capture details as follows:

L 159 x 2 mins

R 50 x 2 mins

G 57 x 2 mins

B 51 x 2 mins

[WolfieGlos]

Looks rather ghostly to me. That's a small galaxy to go for, but that's a great result.