NGC 5907 (UGC 9801) Galaxy in Draco
Located at: RA 15 hours 15 minutes 54 seconds, Dec +56 degrees 19 minutes 38 seconds
Size: 12.9' x 1.3'; Magnitude: 11.1 blue; Class: SA(s)c: sp
North is up
West to the right
| Telescope: |
8" f5 Newtonian reflector |
| Camera: |
ST-8XME, self-guided, binned 1x1, temp -15c, camera control MaxIm DL 4.56 |
| Image: |
Lumicon Deep Sky filter, 510 minutes (51 x 10 minute subs), 05/16/17/18/2008; seeing 2.2-3.7 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: |
From the NGC / IC
Project: Contemporary Visual Observation(s) for NGC 5907 NGC 5907 = UGC 09801 = MCG +09-25-040 = CGCG 274-038 = CGCG 297-010 = Ho 704a = FGC 1875 = LGG 396-003 = N5906 = PGC 54470 15 15 53.3 +56 19 44 V = 10.3; Size 12.6x1.4; SB = 13.3; PA = 155d 17.5": fairly bright, extremely large edge-on 9:1 NNW-SSE, extends to roughly 13'x1.5'. Contains a bright core with an almost stellar nucleus. A mag 14 star lies 1.1' W of center. 13": very large, very elongated, narrow streak, bright core, faint star is W of the core. - by Steve Gottlieb |