M 89 (NGC 4552) Galaxy in Virgo
Located at: RA 12 hours 35 minutes 40 seconds, Dec +12 degrees 33 minutes 25 seconds
Size: 3.5' x 3.5'; Magnitude: 10.7 blue; Class: E0-1
North is up
West to the right
| Telescope: |
8" f5 Newtonian reflector |
| Camera: |
ST-8XME, self-guided, binned 1x1, temp -25c, camera control MaxIm DL 4.56 |
| Image: |
Lumicon Red filter, 530 minutes (53 x 10 minute subs), 05/28/29/30/2011; seeing 1.7-5.4 FWHM per CCDStack |
| Processing: |
CCDStack 2.24.4110.20701, Photoshop 7.0 |
| Location: |
Rolling Roof Observatory, Thousand Oaks, CA 91360 (+34d 13m 29s -118h 52m 20s) |
| Notes: |
From the
NGC / IC Project: Contemporary Visual Observation(s) for NGC 4552 NGC 4552 = M89 = U07760 = MCG +02-32-149 = CGCG 070-184 = PGC 41968 12 35 39.9 +12 33 20 V = 9.8; Size 5.1x4.7; SB = 13.2 17.5": very bright, irregularly round, fairly small but high surface brightness with an intense, very small bright core and substellar nucleus. Forms a pair with N4550/N4551 pair 20' S. - by Steve Gottlieb |