NGC 1560 (IC 2062) Galaxy in Camelopardalis
Located at: RA 04 hours 32 minutes 49 seconds, Dec +71 degrees 53 minutes 02 seconds
Size: 9.8' x 1.7'; Magnitude: 12.2 blue; Class: SA(s)d 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 Red filter, 1090 minutes (109 x 10 minute subs), 11/28/29/30 & 12/2/2009; seeing 2.5-4.9 FWHM per CCDStack |
| Processing: |
CCDStack 1.6.0.5, Photoshop 7.0 |
| Location: |
Rolling Roof Observatory, Thousand Oaks, CA 91360 (+34d 13m 29s -118h 52m 20s) |
| Notes: | This faint NGC galaxy was taken near full moon ... with the first three days very clear, but the seeing poor (courtesy of the offshore winds), and the last day with good seeing, but very hazy, increasing the background sky count to over 24000 ADU! |