Antilhue - Chile

NGC 5061
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Image Data

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