NGC 3718 and 3729

NGC 3718 is by far the furthest main target I have gone after (on the left) at 52Mly away. To the right is NGC 3729 at a distance of 65Mly away. Considering how small it looks at that distance it's probably huge. Up on top is Hickson 56 galaxy cluster at a whopping 425Mly away. This was the tail end of the available imaging time I had in early 2022. To date, there have been very few days that were imaging friendly.

From NASA and Wikipedia: NGC 3718 is a highly disturbed spiral galaxy with an unusual, warped shape that looks a bit like a plump letter “s” from Earth, with a thin thread of dark dust snaking through it. Hubble’s view of this portion of NGC 3718 shows the sinuous, twisting dust lane in detail as it sweeps by the core of the galaxy and curves into the surrounding gas. Both the galaxy’s gas and dust lane are similarly distorted into this unique configuration.

NGC 3729 is a barred spiral galaxy located in the constellation Ursa Major. It is located at a distance of circa 65 million light years from Earth, which, given its apparent dimensions, means that NGC 3729 is about 60,000 light years across. It was discovered by William Herschel on April 12, 1789.