NGC 1055 (UGC 2173) Galaxy in Cetus

Located at: RA 02 hours 41 minutes 45 seconds, Dec +00 degrees 26 minutes 31 seconds

Size: 7.6' x 2.6'; Magnitude: 11.4 blue; Class: SBb: sp

North is up

West to the right

Telescope:

 8" f5 Newtonian reflector

Camera:

  ST-8XME, self-guided, binned 1x1, temp -25c, camera control MaxIm DL 4.56

Image:

Lumicon Deep Sky filter, 500 minutes (50 x 10 minutes) 02/05/06/07/2007; seeing 2.7-3.6 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:

This image replaces a 175 minute unfiltered image from 01/28/2006