NGC 4026 (UGC 6985) Galaxy in Ursa Major
Located at: RA 11 hours 59 minutes 25 seconds, Dec +50 degrees 57 minutes 38 seconds
Size: 5.2' x 1.4'; Magnitude: 11.7 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 Deep Sky filter, 360 minutes (36 x 10 minute subs), 03/21/22/2008; seeing 2.8-4.1 FWHM per CCDStack |
| Processing: |
CCDStack 1.3.2, Photoshop 7.0 |
| Location: |
Rolling Roof Observatory, Thousand Oaks, CA 91360 (+34d 13m 29s -118h 52m 20s) |
| Notes: | I shot this S0 galaxy while the moon was nearly full ... was just
looking for a high surface brightness object. Turns out I picked up the
faint little galaxy next to it called UGC 6956
(2.5'x2.2', mag 14.9b, Cl: SB(s)m). From the NGC / IC Project: Contemporary Visual Observation(s) for NGC 4026NGC 4026 = UGC 06985 = MCG +09-20-052 = CGCG 269-029 = PGC 37760 11 59 25.0 +50 57 42 V = 10.8; Size 5.2x1.3; SB = 12.7; PA = 178d 17.5":bright, large, excellent lens-shape edge-on 5:1 N-S, 4.0'x0.8'. Sharply concentrated with a striking bulging core and non-stellar nucleus. Extensions tapers at ends. Located 7.2' SSW of mag 9.2 SAO 28211. - by Steve Gottlieb |