| Steve Bodin | ||||
| Galaxies:
NGC 4742 / NGC 4760 /
NGC 4781 Date & Time: 27 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 50 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 |
Clouds cleared over Virgo,
so back to the center, well actually south of center about as far as I
can go this time of year in Virgo. Problem this low in the sky is a magnitude
loss in brightness. But this field has a bonus double star, STF1682. Which
according to the WDS is a triple to boot! AB 298 at 28.8 sec and
AC 213 at 141 sec. This magnification on the scope is really too small
to accurately measure stars, but the WDS numbers look about right. Back
to the subject galaxies. They are in a line about equal separation to the
east. But they are hardly worth the trip. NGC4742 is almost starlike and
can only be determined to be a galaxy by its position. NGC4760 is only
a little larger and just fuzzy vice starlike. NGC4781 is a spiral that
can just be seen. I'm sure that this one will be difficult for visual observers.
I would move these to the moderate catagory from the easy ones.
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