Deep Sky Object in Summer
NGC6384 (Galaxy in Ophiuchus)



Date & Time: Mar 4 2017, from 27:17 to 27:53 JST(+0900)
Composed 10 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 & Pictor 201XT
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...ISO6400, White Balance...Daylight



NGC6384/ Galaxy, type SAB(r)bc
R.A.17h 32m 24.6s (2000.0)
Dec.+07°03' 38" (2000.0)
Apparent Size7.0×4.0'
Radial Velocity1690km/s
Magnitude11.1
Distance77 million light yrs.
Group og Galaxies -
Other IDsUGC 10891, CGCG 55-7
MCG +1-45-1, IRAS 17299+705
PGC 60459
NGC6384 is a medium-scaled spiral galaxy positioned in a pentagon of Ophiuchus. The galaxy has a long axis of about 7 arc minutes, comparatively larger one included in the territory of Ophiuchus that has hardly striking galaxies. Although this image can show you the indistinct arms wound -up, telescope-aided eyes detect as only lump of elliptic light. A distance has been estimated as about 77 million light years.




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