NGC 4026 (UGC 6985) Galaxy in Ursa Major
Located at: RA 11 hours 59 minutes 25 seconds, Dec +50 degrees 57 minutes 38 seconds
Size: 5.2' x 1.4'; Magnitude: 11.7 blue; Class: S0 sp
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 Deep Sky filter, 360 minutes (36 x 10 minute subs), 03/21/22/2008; seeing 2.8-4.1 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: | I shot this S0 galaxy while the moon was nearly full ... was just looking for a high surface brightness object. Turns out I picked up the faint little smudge next to it called UGC 6956, a magnitude 14.9 blue, SB(s)m galaxy |