Antilhue - Chile
Antilhue - Chile
|
|
|
| Designation | Abell 1060, Hydra I |
| Object type | Galaxy cluster |
| Coordinates | 10 h 37 min - 27° 32' (Hydra) |
| Description | Although foreground stars of our
own galaxy are prominent here with their mag 5 resp. mag 7 brilliance,
closer inspection reveals that galaxies are the dominating objects.
This is a lovely nearby cluster, only about 165 million light years
away. Its central region includes six NGC galaxies brighter than
14th magnitude within a 20 arcminute field. The cluster is dominated
by a pair of giant ellipticals, NGC 3309 and NGC 3311. NGC 3312 is
the nice spiral galaxy just right of center. A lot of the
members of the Abell 1060 cluster are interacting, however two who seem to
be interacting, actually constitute a chance alignment: look for NGC
3314, a face-on spiral in front of a nearly edge-on spiral at lower right
under the second brightest star.
The field of view is 37 x 25 arcminutes with north towards the left. |
| Exposure | L 260 min @ -20°C ; 20 min exposures |
| Camera | SBIG STL-11000 - selfguided |
| Optics | RCOS 14.5" Ritchey-Chrétien @ f/9 (prime focus) |
| Mount | Astro-Physics AP1200GTO |
| Software | MaxIm DL/CCD, Sigma Pre Beta, Adobe Photoshop CS |
| Location - Date - Time | San Esteban (Chile) - 13-14Feb2005 @ 07:00 UTC |
| Conditions | Transparency 8, Seeing 7, Temperature + 16°C |
