Observation by Patrick Maloney: NGC 3 & 4

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Patrick Maloney

Observer

Patrick Maloney

Observed

2014 Sep 20 - 00:50

Uploaded

2021 Nov 11 - 19:31

Objects

NGC3
NGC4

Equipment

12" Newtonian reflector, 10mm Plossl eyepiece, x150

Location

Skelwith Fold

Target name

NGC 3 & NGC 4

Title

NGC 3 & 4

About this image

NGC 3: Pretty bright, at least the nucleus, which appeared stellar. Very small, tiny, in fact. Elongated.

NGC 4: Incredibly faint and difficult. No hint of anything other than its very ephemeral presence. The magnitude quoted in DSFG (15.8) is almost certainly too low.

Files associated with this observation

NGC 3 etc-14214.jpg (140.7 kB)

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