NGC 3190 NGC 3193


Combination of 5, 3 minute images unfiltered.
SBIG STL-1001E CCD. 20" f/6.8 Dall-Kirkham cassegrain telescope at prime focus.

At magnitude 9.1, NGC 3190 is the brightest member of a small group of galaxies in Leo, known as Hickson 44A. Only a little fainter at magnitude 9.6, is the elliptical galaxy, NGC 3193. Another member of the group in the image is NGC 3187 to the upper right (north west) of NGC 3190. A 4th member, NGC 3185, is just out of the field.

NGC 3190 is an edge-on spiral with a dark dust lane. This was not visible in the telescope. NGC 3190 is an E0, while NGC 3187 is a barred spiral, probably SBd.