Deep Sky Object in Autumn
NGC1087, NGC1090 (Galaxies in Cetus)


Date & Time: Jan 3 2016, from 22:45 to 23:59 JST(+0900)
Composed 10 shots with 8 minutes exposed
Optical: Meade 25cm(10") Schmidt-Cassegrain with conversion lens (f=1600mm, F6.3)
with BaaderPlanetarium UV/IR cut filter
Auto-guided with Meade LX200 Equatorial & Pictor 201XT
Digital Camera: Canon EOS 600D (Remodeled)
Location: Ooizumi, Hokuto city, Yamanashi pref.

Camera Settings: Recording Format...14bit CCD-RAW, converted to 16bit TIFF(5184×3456)
Sensitivity...ISO1600


NGC1087 / Galaxy, type SB:(s)c: pec II-III
R.A.02h 46m 24.9s (2000.0)
Dec.-00° 29' 46" (2000.0)
Apparent Size3.7×2.3'
Radial VelocityN/A
Magnitude11.3
DistanceN/A
Group of Galaxies -
Other IDsUGC2245, MCG0-8-9
CGCG389-10, PGC10496
NGC1090 / Galaxy, type SB(r)bc II
R.A.02h 46m 33.5s (2000.0)
Dec.-00° 14' 48" (2000.0)
Apparent Size4.1×1.7'
Radial VelocityN/A
Magnitude12.4
DistanceN/A
Group of Galaxies -
Other IDsUGC2247, MCG0-8-11
CGCG389-11, PGC10507
This image shows you two small galaxies lying about 1 degree ESE from M77, the brightest galaxy in Cetus. The lower one is NGC1087 and upper one has a number of NGC1090. Both galaxies are inconspicuous with sizes about 3 or 4 arc minutes at most, and have visual magnitudes of 11th or 12th, or dimmer magnitude.
You can see NGC1087 with dimmed spiral structure in this image. And this galaxy has been classified in a group of bared-galaxy.



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NGC1169

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