NGC 3115 (UGCA 199) Galaxy in Sextans
Located at: RA 10 hours 05 minutes 14 seconds, Dec -07 degrees 43 minutes 05 seconds
Size: 7.2' x 2.4'; Magnitude: 9.9 blue; Class: S0- sp
North is up
West to the right
| Telescope: |
8" f5 Newtonian reflector |
| Camera: |
ST-8XME, self-guided, binned 1x1, temp -20c, camera control MaxIm DL 4.56 |
| Image: |
Lumicon Red filter, 640 minutes (64 x 10 minute subs), 04/25/26/27/28/2011; seeing 2.5-4.6 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 3115 NGC 3115 = MCG -01-26-018 = UGCA 199 = Spindle Galaxy = PGC 29265 10 05 14.1 -07 43 07 V = 8.9; Size 7.2x2.5; SB = 11.9; PA = 43d 17.5": very bright, fairly large, edge-on spindle 3:1 SW-NE, 5.5'x1.8'. Unusually high surface brightness, bright core, stellar nucleus. A mag 12.5 star is 3.2' S of center and a mag 10.5 star is 8' E. MCG -01-26-021 lies 17' SSE. 13": stunning edge-on, very bright, small very bright core. 8": very bright, high surface brightness, very bright core. - by Steve Gottlieb |