[Lvas] March Deep-Sky Observing Project

[roger ivester]

March deep-sky Object: NGC 2403 Galaxy in Camelopardalis 

 

 

We can start early with our March deep-sky observing project as Rob has already sent an image. I think that it is excellent. Please notice all of the details within the halo of this galaxy. Rob, I hope you don't mind my forwarding it to all...both here and the LV community. Thank you for the permission to use all of your images as you are our primary imager for this project. 

 

I have many sketches of NGC 2403 beginning December 1994. I will forward a sketch that was made with a No.2 pencil on white paper. I inverted the color on my scanner to give a white on black for the same effect of a white charcoal pencil on black paper.

 

My notes: Dec. 26th 1994; Telescope 10-inch f/4.5 reflector at our dark site in the South Mountains approximately 35 minutes north of Boiling Springs, NC.

Time: 12:30 AM; conditions...both seeing and transparency very good. Temperature 30°, wind calm, very low humidity. 

 

Eyepiece: 16mm University Optics Konig with the employ of a short Celestron Ultima apochromatic 3 element barlow.  Magnification 142x. The sketch has a FOV of 0.42° and 25 arc minutes.

 

Description notes of 26-Dec-94: Large, bright, fairly extended and elongated, situated between two bright stars. I can see three stars within the halo, excluding the two brighter stars. 

 

The Halo extends beyond the brighter stars elongated with the galaxy of SE-NW...on both sides. This object does have a greater concentration in the central region, but only subtle. 

 

Supplemntal observing information: I cannot see the three stars from my backyard and the halo is much less extended using the same scope and eyepiece combination.

 

Roger

 

 

 

  
 
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