NGC 3003 (UGC 5251) Galaxy in Leo Minor

Located at: RA 09 hours 48 minutes 36 seconds, Dec +33 degrees 25 minutes 18 seconds

Size: 5.9' x 1.3'; Magnitude: 12.3 blue; Class: Sbc?

North is up

West to the right

Telescope:

 8" f5 Newtonian reflector

Camera:

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

Image:

Lumicon Deep Sky filter, 240 minutes (24 x 10 minute subs), 04/11/2008; seeing 3.0-7.6 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:*

My cooling fan on the ST8 stopped working tonight ... this was the best temp I could maintain as the offshore (Santa Ana) winds raised the night time temps