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(IAAC) NGC 7814 - 17.5" F/4.5
Observer: Yann POTHIER (France)
Your skill: advanced (many years)
Object: NGC 7814 (PGC 218, UGC 8, MCG 3-1-20, CGCG 456- 24, ZWG
456.24, KUG 0000+158, H II 240)
Category: galaxy
Constellation: PEG
Object data: Bmag=11.6; 6.5'x2.7'; type Sa-b / SA(s)ab:sp.
RA/DE: 00h03m14.8s, +16°08'41" (2000.0)
Date and UT of observation: 29 July 2003, 00h50 UT
Location & latitude: La Clapiere Obs. (France, latN44 40 00, longE06 27 36)
Site classification: rural, alt.1650m (5500ft)
Limiting magnitude (visual in UMi): 6.34 (25% of the observing time
with averted vision)
Transparency (1 to 5 - best to worst): 1.5
Seeing (1 to 5 - best to worst): 2.5
Altitude of object above horizon: 49°
Moon up (phase?): no
Instrument: Coulter 445mm/17.5" F/4.5
Magnification: 211x, 400x
Filters used: -
Description: at 211 & 400x, medium sized galaxy, quite bright,
between oval and spindle-shaped, about 2.3'x0.8' according to a NW-SE
axis, but with ill-defined edges; brighter central area about 0.8' in
diameter; dark lane difficult to perceive at 211x (less difficult at
400x), about 1' long and very sharp (less than 6" in width), less
than 25% of the time and incomplete in length as it is nearly
impossible to catch near the nucleus; the galaxy must be about
B-type; a 13th mag. star is 3.6' to the south.
I can provide a scanned drawing of NGC 7814 to anyone who can read
the binhex encoding of Eudora (for Mac); just mail me to try
(yann.pothier@fnac.net), it works quite often with other
configurations...
--
Carpe noctem, Yann.
Yann Pothier
11 impasse Canart, 75012 PARIS, FRANCE
yann.pothier@fnac.net
http://www.astrosurf.com/cielextreme
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