Steve and I have seen the spiral arms in IC 1296 in my scope in the past. I too was not aware of the LEDA galaxy, Mega Star list it as MAC 1853+3307 and gives it a mag of 17.5. I will give it a go if the monsoon here ever clears.
Steve and I have seen the spiral arms in IC 1296 in my scope in the past. I too was not aware of the LEDA galaxy, Mega Star list it as MAC 1853+3307 and gives it a mag of 17.5. I will give it a go if the monsoon here ever clears.
Clear Skies,
Jimi Lowrey
Fort Davis Texas
48"F4 OMI/TEC
28'F4 ATM
Hello Vassilios,
IC 1296 is already visible with 12" under superb skies (NELM 7m0+, La Palma). But very, very tough. Very good second observer confirmed sighting.
CS
Norman
12" f/ 4,5 - tuned Sumerian Optics Dobson - Nauris main mirror
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Steve
24" f/3.7 Starstructure
18" f/4.3 Starmaster
Adventures in Deep Space
Contributing Editor, Sky & Tel
Great,
any highlights?
Our best part was Abell 426 and galaxies arround NGC 7431. Abell 426 is a straight line made by faint galaxies! Great views but I had a feeling it could be better. Our new site in Rodopos in Crete was maybe 300 m above sea level and I could see less than the site at 1.400m
Thanks
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Vassilios
I'm away from home (and my observing notes) for the next week, but one highlight for me was III Zw 22, also known as Shakhbazian 38. This is a very compact chain of 4 mag 17-17.5 galaxies within ~30". Uwe Glahn has an excellent sketch through his 27" at high power here. The combined glow of the four galaxies in the chain were immediately noticed at 200x. Upping the magnification to 375x, the combined glow stretched ~1.0'x0.2', but the individual galaxies weren't resolved at this power.
I couldn't find a redshift on the group, but based on the size, I wouldn't be surprised if they in the 1 billion l.y. range.
III Zw 22.jpg
Steve
24" f/3.7 Starstructure
18" f/4.3 Starmaster
Adventures in Deep Space
Contributing Editor, Sky & Tel
I observed MAC 1853+3307 tonight under not very good conditions. It was picked up at 375X with my finder eyepiece at the end of a chain of stars it was visible as a soft glow at this power approximately 75% of the time. I bumped up the power to 697X and the galaxy I could hold all the time with AV. On a good night I think it would be visible in 18" to 20" class of scope or even a 16"?
Clear Skies,
Jimi Lowrey
Fort Davis Texas
48"F4 OMI/TEC
28'F4 ATM
I brought the image on my mind and thought about it better. Could you estimate the magnitude of the last star of the chain? The one next to the galaxy. I was seeing something with AV, was it the star or the Galaxy? That caught my attention from the beginning and made me to look at the map if it was a Galaxy. If the this star is high magnitude I was probably seeing with AV the star with the 24"
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