AP#39 : NGC 3166 and 3169
Name: The Cat's Eyes galaxies
Constellation:Sextans
Instrument: 8-inch F5 reflector with sky watcher coma corrector and modified Nikon D3300.
Exposure time: A stack of 16 five-minute exposures at ISO 800.
Star Chart from Michael Vlasov's Deep sky hunter star atlas available on line https://www.deepskywatch.com/deep-sky-hunter-atlas.html
Magnitude: Both are 10.5
Angular size: Both are 4'
NGC 3166 is a lenticular galaxy and NGC 3169 is a spiral galaxy. The tilt of the galaxies give the appearance of two Cat's eyes staring back at you. Their sizes are small but the impression of these two being eyes back at you, lands them on my list.
