Deep Sky Object in Spring
NGC2563 Group (Galaxy Group in Cancer)


Date & Time: Nov 20 2020, from 26:38 to 27:45 JST(+0900)
Composed 12 shots with 6 minutes exposed
Optical: Meade 25cm(10") Schmidt-Cassegrain with conversion lens (f=1600mm, F6.3)
with BaaderPlanetarium Moon&Skyglow 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(4080×4080)
Device Size...20×20mm
Sensitivity...ISO4000, White Balance...Daylight


NGC2563 / Galaxy, type S0^:
R.A.08h 20m 35.7s (2000.0)
Dec.+21°04' 03" (2000.0)
Apparent Size2.5×2.2'
Radial Velocity+4674km/s
Magnitude13.2
Distance240 million light yrs.
Group of GalaxiesNGC2563 Group
Other IDsUGC 4347, CGCG 119-65
MCG +4-20-33, PGC 23404
This picture shows you a lenticular galaxy NGC2563 and a galaxy group in outskirts positioned at about 3 degrees west of η Cnc. NGC2563 has an elliptic shape with a size of 2.5 arc minutes and a brightness of 13th magnitude. And compact fourteen galaxies like NGC2560, NGC2562, UGC4332 and so on are distributed in a span of about a degree. They are belonging to NGC2563 group at about 200 million light years away.
Numbers with 4 digits represent NGC #



M104 (Sombrero Nebula)
NGC2613

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