8" f5 Newtonian reflector

 ST-8XME, self-guided, binned 1x1, temp -20c, camera control MaxIm DL 4.56

Lumicon Deep Sky filter, 360 minutes (36 x 10 minute subs), 02/8/9/2008; seeing 2.6-5.0 FWHM per CCDStack

CCDStack 1.3.2, Photoshop 7.0

 Rolling Roof Observatory, Thousand Oaks, CA 91360 (+34d 13m 29s -118h 52m 20s)

Contemporary Visual Observation(s) for NGC 925

NGC 0925 = UGC 01913 = MCG +05-06-045 = CGCG 504-085 = PGC 09332
02 27 17.0 +33 34 43
V = 10.1;  Size 10.5x5.9;  SB = 14.4;  PA = 102d

17.5": fairly bright, large, about 5' diameter although the halo is irregular.  
The core appears as a bright bar running through the center and elongated WNW-
ESE with a fainter halo north and south of the bar. The bar is moderately 
concentrated and has a mottled texture.  There is a strong impression of very 
faint extensions or arms which begin to hook north on the WNW end and south on 
the ESE ends of the bar.  An extremely faint knot is just visible off the west 
side 3.3' from the center (this is an association near the edge of a spiral 
arm).  Several stars are near; a mag 10.5 star is 3.4' S of center, two mag 12 
stars are just north of the core 1.0' and 1.5' from the center and a wide pair 
of mag 12.5 star are 5' W.

8": faint, fairly large, diffuse, irregular, elongated 2:1 NW-SE, even surface 
brightness.  A mag 10 star is 3.5' S.

- by Steve Gottlieb