Antilhue - Chile
Antilhue - Chile
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| 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 |
