NGC5155 ? The Bright Bit below the Coal Sack

[avandonk]

This is 12X16 min in 3nm NII. The area is the grey bit in the first image below.

Large image 6MB

http://d1355990.i49.quadrahosting.com.au/2013_04/NGC5155Q.jpg

THe SkyX tells me it is NGC5155 but there is no info on what this actually designates. Any clues?

Bert

[DavidU]

Nice deep image Bert. Is it the dim cluster NGC 4609?

[Ross G]

Nice capture Bert.


Ross.

[mithrandir]

Lots of crisp stars Bert.

According to UniMap NGC5155 is central, NGC5045 at the top, and NGC5120 in the overlap.

I think I need a faster laptop. UniMap detected 93655 objects, matched 1489 stars from Tycho2 immediately then took ages to download and add the 407 DSOs. I could have added the image with overlay but 200KB doesn't do it justice.

DOCdb (http://www.docdb.net/show_object.php?id=ngc_5155) has some observation comments.