NGC 147 (UGC 326) Galaxy in Cassiopeia

Located at: RA 00 hours 33 minutes 12 seconds, Dec +48 degrees 30 minutes 28 seconds

Size: 13.2' x 7.7'; Magnitude: 10.5 blue; Class: E5 pec

North is up

West to the right

Telescope:

 8" f5 Newtonian reflector

Camera:

  ST-8XME, self-guided, binned 1x1, temp -10c & -15c, camera control MaxIm DL 4.56

Image:

Lumicon Red filter, 840 minutes  (84 x 10 minute subs), 10/22/23/25/26/2009; seeing 1.8-3.5 FWHM per CCDStack

Processing:

CCDStack 1.6.0.4, Photoshop 7.0

Location:

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

Notes: NGC 147 and NGC 185 are two satellite galaxies of M 31 (the 'Great Galaxy in Andromeda'). I shot these two dwarf galaxies with long(ish) exposures during the October 'moon up' period