Antilhue - Chile
Antilhue - Chile
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| Designation | NGC 1350, Bennett 14a |
| Object type | Class SB Spiral galaxy |
| Coordinates | 03 h 31 min - 33° 38' Fornax (For) |
| Description | This appealing spiral
galaxy is a member of the Fornax galaxy cluster, about 55 million light-years away
and only 2.6 degrees to the north of the showpiece "foreground"
galaxy NGC 1365. Dreyer
describes NGC 1350 as bright (magnitude 11.3), large
(5.2'x2.8'), moderately extended (position angle 30°), with a very
much brighter middle and a round nucleus. NGC 1350 is about 130,000
light-years across making it as large or slightly larger than our own
Milky Way.
North is towards the upper left (330°) in this 15 x 10 arcmin field of view. |
| Exposure | CRGB 100:40:40:40 min @ -18°C, RGB exposures binned 2x2 |
| Camera | SBIG ST-10XE selfguided + CFW8 with Astrodon CRGB filterset |
| Optics | RCOS 14.5" Ritchey-Chrétien @ f/9 (prime focus) |
| Mount | Astro-Physics AP1200GTO |
| Software | MaxIm DL/CCD, Registar, Adobe Photoshop CS |
| Location - Date - Time | San Esteban (Chile) - 20 (RGB) and 21 (Lum) Oct2006 @ 05:00 UTC |
| Conditions | Transparency 7/10, Seeing 7/10, Temperature + 13° C |
