Deep Sky Object in Winter
NGC1409 & NGC1410 (Galaxies in Taurus)


Date & Time: Feb 11 2024, from 21:15 to 21:58 JST(+0900)
Composed 8 shots with 6 minutes exposed
Optical: Meade 25cm(10") Schmidt-Cassegrain with conversion lens (f=1600mm, F6.3)
with IDAS LPS-P1 Light-pollution suppression filter
Auto-guided with Meade LX200 Equatorial & Lacerta M-GEN
Digital Camera: Nikon D810A
Location: Ooizumi, Hokuto city, Yamanashi pref.

Camera Settings: Recording Format...14bit CCD-RAW, converted to 16bit TIFF(2040×2040)
Device Size...10×10mm
Sensitivity...ISO4000, White Balance...Daylight


NGC1409 / Galaxy, type SAB0:pec
R.A.03h 41m 10.5s (2000.0)
Dec.-01° 18' 10" (2000.0)
Apparent Size1.0×0.8'
Radial Velocity+7510km/s
Magnitude14.4
Distance300 million light yrs.
Group of GalaxiesN/A
Other IDs(UGC 2821), MCG +0-10-11
(CGCG 391-28), PGC 13553
NGC1410 / Galaxy, type E pec:
R.A.03h 41m 10.8s (2000.0)
Dec.-01° 17' 57" (2000.0)
Apparent Size1.2'
Radial Velocity+7527km/s
Magnitude13.7
Distance300 million light yrs.
Group of GalaxiesN/A
Other IDs(UGC 2821), MCG +0-10-12
(CGCG 391-28), PGC 13556
This image shows you a extraordinary faint colliding galactic pair positioned above a border of Taurus and Eridanus. The pair is estimated about 300 millions light years away, both galaxies has an apparent sizes of 1 arc minutes or so and 14th or 15th magnitude in visual brightness. The Hubble Space Telescope (HST) has captured and opened to the public a clear and dynamic figure of this deep sky objects.


NGC1409 & NGC1410 captured by HST NGC1409 & NGC1410 captured by HST
© STScI-HST




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