Designation |
NGC 5061, Bennett 59 |
Object type |
Elliptical galaxy |
Coordinates |
13 h 18 min
- 26° 50' Hydra (Hya) |
Description |
A nondescript neighbour to the
attractive pair NGC 5078 - IC 879. The
bright star above shines at mag 8.9
North is towards the right in this 15 x 10 arcmin field of
view.
|
Exposure |
CRGB 90:30:30:30 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, PixInsight Beta V.1.132, Adobe
Photoshop CS |
Location - Date - Time |
San Esteban (Chile) - 31May05 @
03:00 UTC |
Conditions |
Transparency 7/10, Seeing
7-8/10, Temperature
+ 14° C |