| Steve Bodin | ||||
| Galaxies:
NGC 4473 / NGC 4477
Date & Time: 25 May 2003 11 pm to 1 am Seeing: 5 <1-10 Seeing Scale (10 best)>. Transparency: fair degrading to poor Location of site: Silverdale WA, USA 47N 123W Site classification: suburb-rural Conditions: temp 45 F, damp Sky darkness: 5.6 <Limiting magnitude> Telescope: Celestron C8 Eyepieces: not used Additional: DX-8263SL video camera at f2.3 Magnification: app. 80x integrated 2 sec exposures |
The third group in the Markarian's
Chain. The chain is bending to the north here. Same types, lenticular and
elliptical. There is also a faint third component between the two brighter
fuzzies. NGC4479 another lenticular at a listed 13.9 mag.
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