Galaxy ID Please

[Tamtarn]

Last night I was galaxy searching in Cetus and came across a Galaxy which I can't identify on any of my charts.

I have drawn an arrow with a red circle on the chart below in the general area where I saw it.


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Can anyone identify the Galaxy for me and give me the catalogue number please.

Thanks

Barb

[janoskiss]

It's most likely NGC 337.

[[1ponders]]

Hi Barb. Could you upload a map with a bit more contrast and size? I find it very difficult to see on my laptop.

[mickoking]

Looks like NGC341.

[GrahamL]

341 A and 341 B
http://www.visualdeepsky.org/netastrocatalog/msg00490.html

uranometria FE map 262 around - 9 degrees.. maybe .. could never hope to find these from home but the book says they are there

[JohnG]

Take your pick, plenty to choose from. lol

Cheers

JohnG

[mickoking]

NGC 341A has a visual mag of 13.0 and dimentions of 1.2x1.1 arcmin. NGC 341B is much fainter at 15.8 and is 0.3x0.2 arc min.

[Tamtarn]

This is about as much contrast as we can get Paul


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[[1ponders]]

Thanks.......Too many to choose from in that area. Could be ngc337 or ngc274. 274's 12 plus mag though

[Tamtarn]

Decided to draw a map...Don't know if this is any better guys

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[Tamtarn]

After a lot of checking on different charts I think the galaxy may be 155 or 163. The Star Atlas Pro from John G seems to make me lean towards those two. Getting my bearings from NGC246 Nebula and Eta Ceti the others that have been mentioned don't seem to be in the direction I was in.

Any idea the mag of these galaxies and are they within the scope of the f5

Have to wait for another good night to check it out again :)

[glenc]

Here is a map of NGC 337 from SkyMapPro.

[JohnG]

Here is a 15 degree spread centered on NGC 155.

NGC 155, Mag: 13, No size given, Desc: Pretty Faint, Very Small, Round

NGC 163, Mag: 12.8, Size: 1.40', Desc: Very Faint, Very Small

Cheers

JohnG

[edosaurus_rex]

Hi Barb,

This may be going out on a limb, but are you sure it wasn't a comet?

Ed

[Tamtarn]

:lol: :lol: Definately not a comet Ed !!

[Tamtarn]

Thanks everyone. :)

On that night I was just cruising a portion of the sky just to see what I could find and came across this particular galaxy. Until posting this thread I didn't know that there were so many other galaxies in that area.

I guess I need to wait for good conditions again and spend a lot of time at the EP to gather as much detail on the galaxy as I can. Although it is a little faint so I hope I can detect some form or shape.

I've printed out some images from the net of a few of the galaxies some of you have mentioned that are in the locality, and I hope this helps me identify which one it is.

Don't know how I'll go but I'll give it a go and hope I can post an ID soon :astron:

Thanks again for your help guys much appreciated :hi:

Barb