Galaxy
NGC 3344 (NGC3344)
In Leo Minor (LMi) • Magnitude 10.0 • 6.7 arcminutes
Open the free AstroPlanner with NGC 3344 pre-selected, scored against your telescope, location, and the live cloud forecast.
Face-on barred spiral in Leo Minor.
NGC 3344 at a glance
| Catalog IDs | N 3344 |
| Type | Galaxy |
| Constellation | Leo Minor (LMi) |
| Right ascension | 10h 43m 31s |
| Declination | +24° 55' 20" |
| Apparent magnitude | 10.00 |
| Surface brightness | 23.3 mag/arcsec² |
| Angular size | 6.7 × 6.4 arcmin |
| Max altitude at 45°N | 70° |
| Best imaging months | Feb, Mar, Apr, May |
How to image NGC 3344
NGC 3344 sits in the constellation Leo Minor at right ascension 10h 43m 31s and declination +24° 55' 20". 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 3344 needs the darkest skies you can find: surface brightness, not just apparent magnitude, drives whether it will lift out of the gradient.