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NGC 4490 / 4485
Date & Time: 18 May 2003 11 pm to 1 am Seeing: 6 <1-10 Seeing Scale (10 best)>. Transparency: good Location of site: Silverdale WA, USA 47N 123W Site classification: suburb-rural Conditions: temp 35 F, damp Sky darkness: 5.7 <Limiting magnitude> Telescope: 17.5 inch DOB, Bigdog Eyepieces: not used Additional: DX-8263SL video camera at f3 Magnification: app. 200x intergrated 2 sec exposures |
Another strange creature
NGC4490, fat body and waving arms! Something like a Manta ray
heading straight at you! Listed as an Sd spiral, almost no spiral to it.
Long exposures characterize this guy as a pear, but the arms are overexposed.
The companion NGC4485 is probably responsible for these grotesque arms.
The little guy sort of reminds me of the LMC, a blob with the hint of a
bar through it; listed as type I.
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