About image
UGC 3697 is a galaxy in Camelopardalis constellation, called also “The Integral Sign Galaxy” due to its inusual shape.
This edge-on super thin galaxy galaxy has magnitude 12.9 and dimension 3’x0.2’; it is located approximately 151 million light- years away.
Its warping is probably the result of interaction with the dwarf galaxy UGC 3714, the bright round galaxy on the bottom right of UGC 3697.
Several other faint and far galaxies are anyway visible in the background.
Technical data
Optic GSO RC12 Truss - Aperture 304mm, focal lenght 2432mm,
f/8
Mount 10Micron GM2000 HPSII
Camera Moravian G3-16200 with external filter wheel 7
positions
Filters Astrodon Gen2 E-Serie Tru-Balance 50mm unmounted LRGB
Guiding system OAG Moravian M68 with guide camera Moravian
G1-0301
Exposure details L 20x600" bin2 -25
R 12x600" bin2 -25C
G 12x600" bin2 -25C
B 12x600" bin2 -25C
Total integration 9h20'
Acquisition Voyager, PHD2
Processing Pixinsight 1.8, Photoshop CS5
SQM-L 21.2
Location Promiod (Aosta Valley, Italy), own remote
observatory
Date 30 December 2021, 1 January 2022