Constellation tour in Spring
Lynx (The Wild cat)

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Date & Time: Mar 21 2020, from 20:43 to 21:09 JST(+0900)
Composed 6 shots with 5 minutes exposed
Optical: AF zoom-Nikkor 24-85mm (f=24mm, stop: F4.0)
with IDAS LPS-P2-FF Light-pollution suppression
& Kenko PRO Softon[A] filters
Auto-guided with TAKAHASHI EM-200 Equatorial
Digital Camera: Canon EOS 600D (Remodeled)
Location: Ooizumi, Hokuto city, Yamanashi pref.

Camera Settings: Recording Format...14bit CCD-RAW, converted to 16bit TIFF(5184×3456)
Sensitivity...ISO800



Astroarts StellaNavigator 		At around the zenith in late winter to spring, you'll notice that you can hardly find out bright stars in where squeezed between Auriga and Ursa Major. For the purpose of filling up the void in sky, Hevelius, an astronomer in Germany invented the constellation of Lynx. He invented many other minor constellations to fill in the blanks like Vulpecula, Leo Minor, etc. Lynx is one of new constellations, it has neither myths nor legend.
The constellation of Lynx is nothing more than a bumpy line running in north-south direction. The principal star is positioned at the southest one in the line with third magnitude. It should be almost impossible to imagine the figure of a wild cat, and it doesn't have major celestial objects, Lynx is a constellation that has no interest topics.


Guide for Deep Sky Objects

NGC2340 Group .....Small-scaled galaxy group at 2.7deg. NW od 21 Lyn
Intergalactic Wanderer(NGC2419) .....Most distant globular cluster in SW edge.
NGC2444, NGC2445 (Arp 143) .....A peculiar galaxy pair looks like a butterfly positioned in SW region
NGC2537 & IC2233 .....Galactic pair of peculiar and edge-on lying in central region
NGC2541 .....Dimmed spiral galaxy in central region, 30 millions ly away
NGC2683 .....An edge-on galaxy in southern region near a boundary on Cancer
NGC2782(Arp 215) .....Face-on galaxy with a greatly-warped arm positioned at southern region
Abell 569 .....Small-scaled galaxy cluster including more 30 members at western part, 270 million ly away
Abell 634 & NGC2549 .....Medium-scaled lenticular galaxy & neighboring galaxy cluster at the NE edge
Abell 727 & UGC4704 .....Indistinct galaxy cluster in southern part and neighboring edge-on galaxy
Abell 779 .....A galaxy cluster with 30 members 40' south of alpha Lyn, 300 millions ly away
PK164+31.1 .....A dimmed planetary nebula with 6' in diameter at central region



Vela,Pyxis & Antlia
Leo Minor

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