| Steve Bodin | ||||
| Galaxies:
NGC 4038 / NGC 4039 (The Antennae)
Date & Time: 2 and 3 June 2003 11 PM to 3 am Sky darkness: 6 <Limiting magnitude> Transparency: fair to good Seeing: <1 worst - 10 best> Location of site: Silverdale WA, USA 47N 123W Conditions: temp 45-50 F, dry Site classification: suburb-rural Telescope: 17.5 DOB, Bigdog Eyepieces: not used Magnification: app. 200x integrated 2 sec exposures |
I noticed at sunset on the
third that this strange pair might just be visible low in the SW sky just
after it got dark. The slender moon probably added to the magnitude loss
from something only 18 deg above the horizon. Couldn't get the ' antennae'
, only the ' kidney bean' centers of these two interacting glows. Looked
back in my logs from the years in Hawaii 25 years ago and noted that the
antennae structures were visible in my old 10 inch, but these things were
high in the mag 7 skies there.
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