NGC 3718 (UGC 6524, Arp 214) Galaxy field in Ursa Major
Located at: RA 11 hours 32 minutes 35 seconds, Dec +53 degrees 04 minutes 05 seconds
Size: 9.2' x 4.4'; Magnitude: 10.7 visual; Class: SB(s)a pec
North is up
West to the right
| Telescope: |
8" f5 Newtonian reflector |
| Camera: |
ST-8XME, self-guided, binned 1x1, temp -20c, camera control MaxIm DL 4.56 |
| Image: |
Lumicon Red filter, 770 minutes (77 x 10 minute subs), 03/27/28/30 & 04/01/2009; seeing 2.4-3.6 FWHM per CCDStack |
| Processing: |
CCDStack 1.5.2.1, Photoshop 7.0 |
| Location: |
Rolling Roof Observatory, Thousand Oaks, CA 91360 (+34d 13m 29s -118h 52m 20s) |
| Notes: | This interesting field contains two peculiar galaxies; NGC 3718 ( a large Arp galaxy), NGC 3729 (3.0' x 2.2', 11.4 mag, SB(r)a pec), and a Hickson galaxy group (Hickson 56). The Hickson 56 group is the little string of galaxies below (south of) NGC 3718. It consists of five small galaxies, the middle three which appear to be in contact and interacting. See here for an image of Hickson 56 from Adam Block/NOAO/AURA/NSF |