Deep Sky Object in Autumn
NGC676 (Galaxy in Pisces)


Date & Time: Oct 26 2019, from 23:06 to 24:12 JST(+0900)
Composed 7 shots with 5 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: Canon EOS 6D (Remodeled)
Location: Ooizumi, Hokuto city, Yamanashi pref.

Camera Settings: Recording Format...14bit CCD-RAW, converted to 16bit TIFF(3056×3056)
Device Size...20×20mm, Sensitivity...ISO4000


NGC676 / Galaxy, type S0/a: sp
R.A.01h 48m 57.3s (2000.0)
Dec.+05°54' 24" (2000.0)
Apparent Size4.0×1.2'
Radial Velocity+1510km/s
Magnitude10.4
Distance70 million light yrs.
Group of Galaxies -
Other IDsUGC 1270, CGCG 412-28
MCG +1-5-34, PGC 6656
Around the eastern region of Pisces, a small spiral galaxy of NGC676 with a long axis of 4 arc minutes positions about 5 degrees northwest of alpha Psc. The galaxy has comparatively larger slant and hard to detect detailed spiral structures. We can observe a bright nucleus and spindle shape with telescope-aided eyes. The distance has been estimated as 70 million light years.



NGC672, IC1727
Around IC167, NGC691

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