Galaxy
NGC 2841 (NGC2841)
In Ursa Major (UMa) • Magnitude 10.2 • 6.9 arcminutes
Open the free AstroPlanner with NGC 2841 pre-selected, scored against your telescope, location, and the live cloud forecast.
Inclined spiral galaxy in Ursa Major.
NGC 2841 at a glance
| Catalog IDs | N 2841 |
| Type | Galaxy |
| Constellation | Ursa Major (UMa) |
| Right ascension | 09h 22m 03s |
| Declination | +50° 58' 35" |
| Apparent magnitude | 10.20 |
| Surface brightness | 22.5 mag/arcsec² |
| Angular size | 6.9 × 3.3 arcmin |
| Max altitude at 45°N | 84° |
| Best imaging months | Jan, Feb, Mar, Apr |
How to image NGC 2841
NGC 2841 sits in the constellation Ursa Major at right ascension 09h 22m 03s and declination +50° 58' 35". To frame and integrate it well, AstroPlanner will compute the optimal moonless window for tonight from your location, the field-of-view fit against your sensor and focal length, the suggested total integration time given your aperture and sky Bortle class, and a cloud-aware schedule that drops it from the plan if your nearest cloud forecast spike overlaps the best altitude window. As a galaxy, NGC 2841 needs the darkest skies you can find: surface brightness, not just apparent magnitude, drives whether it will lift out of the gradient.