1 octobre 2008
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It is little known that M31, the Great Andromeda Galaxy has not 2 but 4 satellites:
M110 (NGC 205), the ellongated one north of M31 (mag 8.9)
M32 (NGC 221), the round galaxy south of M31 (mag 9.0)
NGC 185 (mag 10.1)
NGC 147 (mag 10.5)
I was able to capture all 4 of them in this simple picture, a composite of 12 individual images taken with the camera piggybacked to my C8, with no guiding. No preprocessing was done, and the frame when a plane crossed the field was also included... Image still goes to magnitude 16.5 !
Right above the white border, on the top part, the variable star VX And is easily located, due to its vivid red color.
M110 (NGC 205), the ellongated one north of M31 (mag 8.9)
M32 (NGC 221), the round galaxy south of M31 (mag 9.0)
NGC 185 (mag 10.1)
NGC 147 (mag 10.5)
I was able to capture all 4 of them in this simple picture, a composite of 12 individual images taken with the camera piggybacked to my C8, with no guiding. No preprocessing was done, and the frame when a plane crossed the field was also included... Image still goes to magnitude 16.5 !
Right above the white border, on the top part, the variable star VX And is easily located, due to its vivid red color.