NGC 5746 (UGC 9499) Galaxy in Virgo
Located at: RA 14 hours 44 minutes 56 seconds, Dec +01 degrees 57 minutes 14 seconds
Size: 7.5' x 1.3'; Magnitude: 11.3 blue; Class: SAB(rs)b? sp
North us up
West to the right
| Telescope: |
8" f5 Newtonian reflector |
| Camera: |
ST-8XME, self-guided, binned 1x1, temp -15c, camera control MaxIm DL 4.53 |
| Image: |
Red (Hoya 25A) filter, 250 minutes (25 x 10 minute subs), 07/1/2006 |
| Processing: |
CCDStack 1.1, Photoshop 7.0 |
| Location: |
Rolling Roof Observatory, Thousand Oaks, California 91360 (+34d 13m 29s -118h 52m 20s) |
| Notes: |
From the NGC / IC Project: Contemporary Visual Observation(s) for NGC 5746 NGC 5746 = UGC 09499 = MCG +00-38-005 = CGCG 020-012 = LGG 386-005 = PGC 52665 14 44 55.8 +01 57 19 V = 10.3; Size 7.4x1.3; SB = 12.6; PA = 170d 17.5": beautiful edge-on ~N-S, bright, fairly large, 4.5'x0.7', small bright core. A mag 15 star is at the S end 2' from the center. A dust lane evident as a sharp light cut-off along the E edge. Located 5' SSE of mag 8.2 SAO 120633 and 20' WNW of 109 Virginis (V = 3.7). The RNGC declination is 10' too far S. - by Steve Gottlieb |