Date/Location |
May 8, 2021 Jubilee College State Park, Illinois |
Camera and Settings |
SBIG ST-4000XCM CCD camera |
Telescope |
8-inch f/8 Ritchey–Chrétien Cassegrain (with a Televue 0.8x focal reducer/field flattener yielding f/6.4) |
Mount |
Paramount MyT |
Exposure |
120 min (12 x 10 min) |
Processing |
CCDOpts, Image Plus 6.5, Photoshop CS6 |
Other |
Magnitude 10.4 spiral galaxy in Virgo, 7.2 x 1.1 arcmin in size. Smaller galaxy is NGC 5740, magnitude 11.9, 2.7 x 1.4 arcmin. Bright star is 109 Virginis magnitude 3.7. |
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