Deep Sky Object in Spring
NGC2859 (Galaxy in Leo Minor)


Date & Time: Feb 23 2020, from 23:30 to 24:24 JST(+0900)
Composed 10 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


NGC2859 / Galaxy, type (R)SB(r)0+
R.A.09h 24m 18.9s (2000.0)
Dec.+34° 30' 46" (2000.0)
Apparent Size4.3×3.8'
Radial Velocity+1649km/s
Magnitude11.5
Distance85 million light yrs.
Group of GalaxiesNGC2859 Group
Other IDsUGC5001, MCG6-21-30
CGCG181-40, PGC26649
This picture has captured a bared galaxy NGC2859 in western edge of Leo Minor. You can detect two lumps at north and south part of central bulge. And the galaxy has an anomalous dimmed outer ring structure looks like a round arm. The galaxy has a diameter of about 7 arc minutes including the outer ring and a distance from us about 85 millions light years.



Around NGC2857
NGC3003

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