NGC 5774 (UGC 9576) / NGC 5775 (UGC 9579) Group Galaxies in Virgo

Center of field at approximately: RA 14 hours 53 minutes 30 seconds, Dec +03 degrees 28 minutes 20 seconds

Size: 3.0' x 2.4' / 4.2' x 1.0'; Magnitude: 12.7 blue / 12.2 blue; Class: SAB(rs)d / SBc? sp

North is up

West to the right

Telescope:

 8" f5 Newtonian reflector

Camera:

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

Image:

Lumicon Red filter, 720 minutes  (72 x 10 minute subs) 07/4/9/11/12/13/14/2010; seeing 1.8-3.5 FWHM per CCDStack

Processing:

CCDStack 2.9.3831.24373, Photoshop 7.0

Location:

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

Notes: NGC 5774 and 5775 (the brightest) are the two larger, brighter galaxies to the NE (upper left). Other interesting galaxies in this field are IC 1067 (2.1'x1.7', mag 13.0p, Cl: SB(s)b) and IC 1066 (1.4'x 0.8', mag 14.1p, Cl: S?) to the SW (lower right), and the little 'ring' galaxy to the west designated CGCG 48-40 (PGC 53126, 0.8'x0.8', mag 15.7, Cl: --)