ASTRO: NGC 4782-3

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I think this is the last of the 6" f/4 shots on the hard drive. A pair
of interacting elliptical galaxies. Other's in the area are NGC 4792 up
and a bit to the left of the main pair. The big barred spiral between
two stars, to the left and up a bit is NGC 4794 and appears a good
target for the 14". Down and to the left by a bright star is
MCG-02-33-054. The galaxy left and up of that only has the designation
[QRW96] 80 on SIMBAD. I didn't check NED. Lots of other faint fuzzies
in the area. Usually I align the camera with north up but this time the
north south line runs through NGC 4782-3 so is at more of an angle than
normal. Not sure why the camera was off so much. Rotate it about 35
degrees counter-clockwise to put north at the top.

6" f/4, 3x10 minutes binned 1x1, ST-7, Paramount ME

Rick
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Nice pic Rick. You could probably get about the same field with the big
camera and big scope, just much larger scale. NGC 4794 shows some nice
detail even at this small scale.

Stefan

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I think this is the last of the 6" f/4 shots on the hard drive. A pair
of interacting elliptical galaxies. Other's in the area are NGC 4792 up
and a bit to the left of the main pair. The big barred spiral between
two stars, to the left and up a bit is NGC 4794 and appears a good
target for the 14". Down and to the left by a bright star is
MCG-02-33-054. The galaxy left and up of that only has the designation
[QRW96] 80 on SIMBAD. I didn't check NED. Lots of other faint fuzzies
in the area. Usually I align the camera with north up but this time the
north south line runs through NGC 4782-3 so is at more of an angle than
normal. Not sure why the camera was off so much. Rotate it about 35
degrees counter-clockwise to put north at the top.

6" f/4, 3x10 minutes binned 1x1, ST-7, Paramount ME

Rick
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The field of the 6" with the ST-7 is only a couple minutes larger than
the one for the 14" with the STL-11000. Just that the 14" has a flatter
field. Though most of the problems with the 6" were a nose piece with
wobble so I never could hold it at right angles and the secondary would
not hold collimation from one side of the sky to the other. Put those
together and I always had out of focus stars someplace in the FOV. I
use a screw on adapter for the STL-11000 so don't have the nose piece
problem though the scope is somewhat out of collimation right now. Has
cut the good focus range down rather than hurt the star images so I'm
living with it until the temp gets back above 0F and I feel like working
on it.

Rick


Stefan Lilge wrote:
Nice pic Rick. You could probably get about the same field with the big
camera and big scope, just much larger scale. NGC 4794 shows some nice
detail even at this small scale.

Stefan

"Rick Johnson" schrieb im Newsbeitrag
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I got an error message sending this and it failed to hit my server so
trying again. This time I'll put ASTRO in the title as well.
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I think this is the last of the 6" f/4 shots on the hard drive. A pair
of interacting elliptical galaxies. Other's in the area are NGC 4792 up
and a bit to the left of the main pair. The big barred spiral between
two stars, to the left and up a bit is NGC 4794 and appears a good
target for the 14". Down and to the left by a bright star is
MCG-02-33-054. The galaxy left and up of that only has the designation
[QRW96] 80 on SIMBAD. I didn't check NED. Lots of other faint fuzzies
in the area. Usually I align the camera with north up but this time the
north south line runs through NGC 4782-3 so is at more of an angle than
normal. Not sure why the camera was off so much. Rotate it about 35
degrees counter-clockwise to put north at the top.

6" f/4, 3x10 minutes binned 1x1, ST-7, Paramount ME

Rick
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Correct domain name is arvig and it is net not com. Prefix is correct.
Third character is a zero rather than a capital "Oh".