NGC 3172 AKA Polarissima Borealis (Const: Ursa Minor, Type: S? Galaxy, Mag: 14.4, Size: 1.0'x0.7')

• 06Jun23 - SXV-H9 image of NGC 3172 (shot at f/5.2, Meade LX10 OTA on G11, 10 minutes (a stack of 2 5 minute 2x2 binned unfiltered luminance images], Processing: Maxim (noise filtering, alignment, stacking, background flattening, DDP), from Overgaard, Arizona [seeing 8, transparency 6, guided with SXV guidehead at 170mm on ST80 guided through MaxIm]). Note the dim galaxy 36268 below and to the right of NGC 3172.
• Digitized Sky Survey image of NGC 3172 for comparison