NGC 3313 is a large, very rarely imaged, barred spiral galaxy in Hydra. It is 180 million light years distant and is an outlying member of the Hydra cluster.
The galaxy has a complete inner ring with two faint dust lanes in the bar. A circular ring surrounds the nucleus. The spiral structure emanating from the ring area is complex and wraps tightly around the ring. The outer arms have a well defined two arm pattern with multiple spiral segments extending far from the main galaxy body.
Imaged in LRGB on our PlaneWave CDK 1000 for Luminance and PlaneWave CDK 700 for RGB color at Observatorio El Sauce, Chile. Image Processing: Mike Selby