This is NGC 3338, a spiral galaxy in Leo that is almost never imaged. ?I don't know the reason for that unless it's because there are five other larger and better-known spiral galaxies in Leo. ?There is also little information about the galaxy online other than "it's there" and has a mass nearly as large as the Milky Way galaxy. ?The spiral arm structure is rather unusual. ?On the right side in this image, the arms are fairly smooth and well-formed like a "grand spiral". But on the opposite side, things look more chaotic with "fragments" of spiral arms lying at odd angles. ?The galaxy is part of a small group and there are two dwarf galaxies that orbit NGC 3338, so maybe that accounts for the odd structure. ?The image was taken during three nights in Feb 2025 with a CDK 12.5" scope and a QSI-640ws camera at f/8 from SkyPi Remote Observatory. Total LRGB integration was 17 hours.

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Thanks for looking,

Bruce W.