MGC+4-28-97 cordinate

[Hakann]

We will try go after MCG+4-28-97 i galaxy cluster in Abell 1413 that Timo from Sweden has seen in a 12.5".
But where is the cordinate or a star map for it ?
It might a window on Saturday at 0 to 02.
Will be using UAA clubs 18" Newt.

[wvreeven]

Hakann, I think you mean the galaxy MCG+4-28-97, for which the coordinates can be found on Simbad:

http://simbad.u-strasbg.fr/simbad/si...=SIMBAD+search


Clear skies and good luck hunting this one down!


Wouter

[Steve Gottlieb]

We will try go after MCG+4-28-97 i galaxy cluster in Abell 1413 that Timo from Sweden has seen in a 12.5".
But where is the cordinate or a star map for it ?
It might a window on Saturday at 0 to 02.
Will be using UAA clubs 18" Newt.

Checking Timo's posts, I see this one from April 1st, in which he didn't find the galaxy -- possibly due to it being misplotted on Megastar. Not sure that he made another post on the galaxy.

Last night, I had again a very dark, transparent sky as seen from my back-yard. For the first time I got a reading darker than SQM-L 21.50 from home. Some 200 meters south of my back-yard the sky was SQM-L 21.7. With my 12-inch, I tried for the 1.8 billion light-years distant galaxy MCG +4-28-97 in Abell 1413 (Leo). I was not able to detect it even when I could glimpse stars of V~16.6 (based on Gaia's G- and R-magnitudes). Today, I came to realize that MegaStar plots MCG+4-28-97 erroneously 8.5 arc-minutes too much east! The galaxy is plotted as a 13.8 mag 'non-star' in MegaStar. Based on the image on the Digitized Sky Survey, I would certainly have caught MCG +4-28-97 if I had looked at the correct place.

[Hakann]

[QUOTE=Steve Gottlieb;7149]Checking Timo's posts, I see this one from April 1st, in which he didn't find the galaxy -- possibly due to it being misplotted on Megastar. Not sure that


He saw it just few days ago.

Yesterday we had no luck in the 18”.
Sky was ok ( SQM 21.2 ) but of course not great.
It was a easy reference stars but absolutly nothing there it should be and dark adopted.
Was using Ethos 8, 6 and 4.7 mm and no Paracorr and FL 80”.
This is 60N not far from where Timo is located.
-Both is area class 3-4 on the Bortle.

I guees I ( we ) need way more aperture and better sky to see this from this place anyway.

Did we see IC 1101. Well, I might spot something I can’t say I saw it.
Quasar 3C 273 was easy.

Anyway, M5 was nice in Ethos 13.
Thoose few hours goes fast.