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(IAAC) Obj: IC 421 - Inst: 4.5-inch (114mm), f/8 Reflector
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Observation Poster: Eric Vondra <parasyonok@ixpres.com>
Observer: Eric Vondra
Your skills: Intermediate (some years)
Date/time of observation: 17 Jan 2004 0500UT
Location of site: Paris, VA (Lat 39N, Elev 225m)
Site classification: Rural
Sky darkness: 7 <1-10 Scale (10 best)>
Seeing: 6 <1-10 Seeing Scale (10 best)>
Moon presence: None - moon not in sky
Instrument: 4.5-inch (114mm), f/8 Reflector
Magnification: 50x, 100x
Filter(s): none
Object(s): IC 421
Category: External galaxy.
Class:
Constellation: Ori
Data: mag 12.35 size
Position: RA : DEC :
Description:
In 100x, my take on this one is basically that there's a 12th mag star right
about where it should be, and I'm thinking this must be the very stellar
nucleus. Maybe a little fuzziness around it. (To the NE of that a couple of
arcminutes there appears to be a little grouping of 12-13th mag stars- about 5
stars or so. The three brightest ones form a bit of a right triangle.) I guess
that was it, but it seems like an awfully bright core, and nothing much around
it, so maybe it's a very small one, or a very dim, low surface brightness face-
on spiral with a stellar core. I would consider this one "non-spectacular."
When I put the 50x back in I get a vague hint of a brighter patch there. Maybe a slight impression of a roughly E-W elongation and rather larger than I first
suspected.
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