This galaxy trio is the first color image taken with my new ST-7E camera. The Primary galaxy bottom center is NGC3190, a 12.1 magnitude type Sa spiral, which is 4.4x1.2 mins in size. Very much contrasting, it the galaxy at the upper left, NGC3193 an Elliptical class object, with a magnitude of 11.8, and a size of 2 arcmins. The most interesting object is to the upper right NGC3187, a 13.4 magnitude spiral galaxy, with unusually long and low surface brightness arm extensions. This object was not seen at all visually, and needed a good 5 second exposure to detect it with the CCD.

Instrument:  12.5" f/5 Home made Newtonian
CCD Camera:  SBIG ST7E
Exposure:  LRGB = 60:20:20:20 (RGB Binned 2x2)
Filters:  RGB Tricolor
Location:  Payson, Arizona
Elevation:  5150 ft.
Sky:  Seeing 8/10, Transparency 5/10
Outside Temperature:  40 F
CCD Temperature:  -15 C
Processing:  Maxim DL, Photoshop, PW Pro.