NGC 3607 / NGC 3608 / NGC 3599


Steve Bodin 
Galaxies:  NGC 3607 / 3608 / 3599
Date & Time: 17 Apr 2004, 9 pm to 11 pm local
Seeing: 5 <1 worst - 10 best>
Transparency: good
Location of site: Silverdale WA, USA 47N 123W
Conditions: temp 40F, damp
Sky darkness: 5.6 <Limiting magnitude>
Site classification: suburb-rural
Telescope: Celestron C8
Eyepieces: not used
Magnification: DX-8263SL color video
camera at f2.3 Magnification: app. 80x

A group of small roundish galaxies, NGC3607 and 3608 are easy and obvious fuzzy stars. NGC 3599 is some distance to the west and quite a bit fainter, only seen well when 50 video frames were stacked. As a bonus, NGC 3605 also popped out in processing, this is a very small elliptical type near NGC 3607.
 
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