NGC 3190 group (Hickson 44) Multi-Galaxy group in Leo

Located at: RA 10 hours 18 minutes 06 seconds, Dec +21 degrees 49 minutes 57 seconds

Size: 4.4' x 1.2'; Magnitude: 12.1 blue: Class: SA(s)a pec sp

North is up

West to the right

Telescope:

 8" f5 Newtonian reflector

Camera:

  ST-8XME, self-guided, binned 1x1, temp -15 & -20c, camera control MaxIm DL 4.56

Image:

Lumicon Red filter, 600 minutes (60 x 10 minute subs), 04/19/21/22/25/2009; seeing 2.3-3.5 FWHM per CCDStack

Processing:

CCDStack 1.6.0.2, Photoshop 7.0

Location:

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

Notes: Another field of objects that is a little small for my focal length (1000mm) ... This Hickson galaxy group is centered on NGC 3190, and includes NGC 3193 (2'x2', 11.8b mag, Cl: E2) to the NE (upper left), NGC 3187 (3.6'x1.6', 13.4v mag, Cl: SB(s)c pec) to the NW (upper right) and NGC 3185 (2.3'x1.5', 13.0b mag, Cl: (R)SB(r)a) to the SSW (lower right)

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