Deep Sky Object in Spring
NGC5044 Group (Galaxy Group in Virgo)


Date & Time: Feb 25 2022, from 25:58 to 26:42 JST(+0900)
Composed 12 shots with 4 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


NGC5044 / Galaxy, type E0/S0
R.A.13h 15m 23.9s (2000.0)
Dec.-16° 23' 09" (2000.0)
Apparent Size2.9×2.9'
Radial Velocity+2692km/s
Magnitude11.7
Distance119 million loght yrs.
Group of GalaxiesN/A
Other IDsMCG-3-34-34, UGCA341
PGC46115
NGC5054 / Galaxy, type SA(s)bc pec I-II
R.A.13h 16m 58.4s (2000.0)
Dec.-16°38' 07" (2000.0)
Apparent Size6.6×3.3'
Radial Velocity+1791km/s
Magnitude10.8
Distance73 million light yrs.
Group of GalaxiesN/A
Other IDsUGCA 344, MCG -3-34-39
IRAS 13142-1622, PGC 46247
This picture contains a elliptical galaxy about 5.7 degrees SSW from spica and distributed small galaxies outskirts. A galactic group in this picture called the NGC5044 group. NGC5044 is captured in upper right hand side, with a diameter of 3 arc minutes and a brightness of 11.7th magnitude. And you can find a warped spiral NGC5054 at about 30 arc minutes southeast of NGC5044, with a long axis of a bit smaller than 7 arc minutes and a brightness of 10.8th magnitude.
Numbers with 4 digits represent NGC #



NGC5018,NGC5022
NGC5068

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