Observation by Steve Knight: Double Quasar QSO 0957+651

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Steve Knight

Observer

Steve Knight

Observed

2024 Feb 02 - 00:40

Uploaded

2024 Feb 02 - 02:07

Objects

QSO 0957+651

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Constellation

Ursa Major

Field centre

RA: 10^h01^m
Dec: +55°53'
Position angle: -88°29'

Field size

0°13' × 0°13'

Equipment

Seestar S50

Exposure

30 min of 10 sec exposures

Location

Banbury

Target name

QSO 0957+651

Title

Double Quasar QSO 0957+651

About this image

Have to thank Joan Genebriera for inspiring me to take this image. Wikipedia informs me that one of the images of the quasar is 14 months earlier than the other thanks to a 1.1 light year different light path. Very surprised that this is possible with a 50mm refractor under a light polluted sky. Each image is magnitude 17 and they are 6 arc sec apart.

Files associated with this observation

Stacked_NGC_3079_10_0s_IRCUT_20240202_004035_ABE cropped focussed faststoned annotated.png (1.2 MB)

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Joan Genebriera, Dr Paul Leyland, Graham Winstanley, Tim Haymes

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