| Date & Time: | Left: Dec 7 2013, from 21:56 to 22:22 JST(+0900), 6min×5shots |
| Right: Dec 7 2013, from 22:37 to 23:19 JST(+0900), 6min×8shots |
| Optical: | Meade 25cm(10") Schmidt-Cassegrain with conversion lens (f=1600mm, F6.3) |
| with BaaderPlanetarium Moon&Skyglow filter |
| Auto-guided with Meade LX200 Equatorial & Pictor 201XT |
| Digital Camera: | Canon EOS 600D (Remodeled) |
| Location: | Ooizumi, Hokuto city, Yamanashi pref. |
| Maffei I / Galaxy, type E |
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| R.A. | 02h 41m 54.0s (2000.0) |
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| Dec. | +59° 39' 00" (2000.0) |
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| Apparent Size | 18.2' |
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| Radial Velocity | -138km/s |
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| Magnitude | 14.4 |
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| Distance | 8 million light yrs. |
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| Group of Galaxies | Maffei Group |
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| Other IDs | UGCA34 |
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| Maffei II / Galaxy, type SBbc |
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| R.A. | 02h 36m 36.0s (2000.0) |
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| Dec. | +59° 36' 00" (2000.0) |
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| Apparent Size | 21.4' |
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| Radial Velocity | -134km/s |
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| Magnitude | 16.0 |
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| Distance | 8 million light yrs. |
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| Group of Galaxies | Maffei Group |
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| Other IDs | UGCA39 |
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This picture shows you two indistinct galaxies lying at 2.5 degrees northeast of the Double Clusters in Cassiopeia.
Although the galaxies has been obstructed by inner galactic matters, their actual sizes are larger than 10 arc minutes,
fairly large-sized neighboring galaxies.
The Maffei I in left image is an elliptic, and the Maffei II in right has been classified in bared galaxy.
The galaxies are estimated about 8 millions light years away discovered by an Italian astronomer Paolo Maffei in 1968, main members of "The Maffei Group".
Now we know about 20 galaxies belonging to Maffei Group, almost all members are faint dwarfs.
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