Designation |
NGC 4976, Bennett 58 |
Object type |
Elliptical galaxy |
Coordinates |
13 h 09 min
- 49° 30' Centaurus (Cen) |
Description |
Located a little over 3 degrees
from the large southern spiral NGC 4945, this inconspicuous little
elliptical galaxy was nevertheless detected with a 5" telescope
working at 20x magnification by comet hunter Jack Bennett. The
bright star on the right is SAO 223931 and shines at mag 7.8
North is down in this 15 x 10 arcmin field of
view.
|
Exposure |
CRGB 60:30:30:30 min @ -15°C,
RGB exposures binned 2x2 |
Camera |
SBIG ST-10XE selfguided + CFW8
with Astrodon CRGB filterset |
Optics |
RCOS 14.5" Ritchey-Chrétien
@ f/9
(prime focus) |
Mount |
Astro-Physics AP1200GTO |
Software |
MaxIm DL/CCD, Sigma Pre Beta
11, Registar, PixInsight Beta V.1.132, Adobe
Photoshop CS |
Location - Date - Time |
San Esteban (Chile) - 30May05 @
03:00 UTC |
Conditions |
Transparency 5/10, Seeing
7-8/10, Temperature
+ 15° C, high clouds |