[Lvas] NGC-2403

[Fred Rayworth]

All,

 

This is the second observing project.

 

NGC-2403 is an almost face-on spiral galaxy in Camelopardalis and is one of the Herschel 1 objects. I had only written notes on it once before, so it was high time Roger inspired me to take another look.

 

Through the eyepiece at 70X (Q-70 26mm), the galaxy was quite nice and fairly large. It is embedded behind a line of three stars through the long side of the oval, and surrounded by several others.

 

I looked hard directly and with averted vision but couldn't see any spiral structure, though I did noticed a clump of gray just off center and to the left of the middle star bisecting the long side of the oval.

 

When another guy looked at it, he thought he saw that clump to the right of the star. Just to make sure, I looked at it several more times and am positive the bright central area is to the left of that central star.

 

I think under better seeing conditions, I might have been able to see a bit more structure.

 

By the way, at 140X it was just washed out and I could see no detail at all.

 

Attached is another very poor drawing. I'm no artist! However, it will give you at least an impression of what I saw through the eyepiece.

 

Fred

 

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