Deep Sky Object in Spring
Around NGC4958 (Galaxies in Virgo)


Date & Time: Feb 9 2024, from 27:03 to 27:57 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


NGC4958 / Galaxy, type SB(r)0? sp
R.A.13h 05m 49.0s (2000.0)
Dec.-08° 01' 13" (2000.0)
Apparent Size4.1×1.2'
Radial Velocity+1515km/s
Magnitude11.6
Distance39 millions light yrs.
Group of GalaxiesVirgo II - NGC4697 Group
Other IDsUGCA 323, MCG -1-33-84
PGC 45313
NGC4948 / Galaxy, type SB(s)dm: sp
R.A.13h 04m 55.7s (2000.0)
Dec.-07°56' 48" (2000.0)
Apparent Size2.0×0.6'
Radial Velocity+1279km/s
Magnitude15.2
Distance43.5 millions light yrs.
Group of GalaxiesVirgo II - NGC4697 Group
Other IDsIC 4156, MCG -1-33-79
PGC 45224
This is an image capturing a galaxy located approximately 3 degrees SSW of θVir at the central part of Virgo. The lenticular galaxy in the center of the image is NGC 4958, with a brightness of 11th magnitude and a major axis of about 4 arcminutes.
The barred spiral galaxy visible 14 arc minutes west of NGC 4958 is NGC 4948. It is very faint at 15th magnitude, so detailed structures are indistinct. Including other faint galaxies visible in this field, they belong to the NGC4697 galaxy group, floating at a distance of about 40 million light-years.



NGC4939
NGC5018,NGC5022

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