Deep Sky Object in Spring
NGC4027 (Galaxy in Corvus)


Date & Time: Feb 10 2024, from 27:18 to 28:13 JST(+0900)
Composed 10 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(4080×4080)
Device Size...20×20mm
Sensitivity...ISO4000, White Balance...Daylight


NGC4027 / Galaxy, type SB(s)dm II-III
R.A.11h 59m 30.1s (2000.0)
Dec.-19° 16' 05" (2000.0)
Apparent Size2.8×2.5'
Radial Velocity+1639km/s
Magnitude11.7
Distance83 million light yrs.
Group of GalaxiesNGC4038 Group
Other IDsUGCA 260, ESO 572-37
Arp 22, MCG -3-31-8
IRAS 11569-1859, PGC 37773
It's an anomalous shaped bared galaxy lying in 40 arc minutes southwest of the Antennae, a famous colliding galactic pair in Corvus. The galaxy of NGC4027 has a size of 3 arc minutes and 11th magnitude in brightness. You can see an asymmetric shape with a stretched northern spiral arm.



Around NGC4008
NGC4030

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