| Steve Bodin | ||||
| Star:
M85 / NGC 4394
Date & Time: 4 and 5 Mar 2003 10 pm to midnight Seeing: 3 <1-10 Seeing Scale (10 best)>. Transparency: good Location of site: Silverdale WA, USA 47N 123W Site classification: suburb-rural Conditions: temp 40F, some wind Sky darkness: 5.7 <Limiting magnitude> Telescope: Celestron C8 Eyepieces: 24mm koenig Additional: DX-8263SL video camera at f2.3 Magnification: : app. 80x f2.3 and visual |
Definite double galaxy.
Two very yellow nuclear regions apparent in aneast/west orientation on
opposite sides of the tv screen. Both mistaken forelliptcals in real time
viewing. M 85 was the brightest and largest, but thecompanion was obvious
too. Post process of 30 frames in Registax showed my realtime error. M
85 was still an elliptical, some books say it might be an S0, butNGC 4394
transformed into a barred spiral! The outer faint parts are onlysuspected,
but the bar is obvious. Some might say that post processing is notallowed
in an observing project, but this kind of observing is a new animal andactually
this ' post processing' could be done in real time and in 2 minutesthe
picture would appear as posted. I just record to video tape and do the
postduring the rainy days and nights like now.
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