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TrevorW
21-08-2023, 01:35 PM
A galaxy visible in the evening sky from Perth, becoming accessible around 18:50 (AWST), 45° above your south-eastern horizon, as dusk fades to darkness. It will then reach its highest point in the sky at 22:31, 73° above your southern horizon. It will continue to be observable until around 04:40, when it sinks below 21° above your south-western horizon.
Constellation: Telescopium
Type: E2 - elliptical galaxy
The angular dimensions: 3.60'x2.8'
magnitude: V=10.7m; B=11.7m
The surface brightness: 13.1 mag/arcmin2
Coordinates for epoch J2000: Ra= 20h9m54s; Dec= -48°22'48"
redshift (z): 0.009520
The distance from the Sun to NGC 6868: based on the amount of redshift (z) - 40.2 Mpc;
Other names of the object NGC 6868 : PGC 64192, ESO 233-39, AM 2006-483

Nearby objects: NGC 6866 (https://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fkosmoved.ru%2 Fget_ngcic.php%3FID%3DNGC-6866%26lang%3Deng%26fbclid%3DIwAR1f 1bebU88BfxW4Ouv-A4zRvFeDQr9z05Rn6n7gPqjOUir6PEJsaWS G-xg&h=AT1dNE8oRS1Yo5j3LnUk-kZOHnD-Zovv7yIgsTORB1zPsIs3-sfRzoiBnT66SKjLTakCpdq2imY7nllaO0fV pMI_jEFc5b2GWf8biOhIJPL2uy8YLHrNnWa vo8aQmigfFsH8yjAf60th1_b6Z4Eb&__tn__=-UK-R&c[0]=AT2hhI3jAwNc03pRWYVhxWKnGd9uo4K2TG J0heZVNh3w7PTGmdfsBgcsNa8HKMe6tVMZl wF3WPXBSIoNhDhpRNcV6yoRlBHIObgB3-a2eMJ8dWLUCW6X1wOIP2n1JKqb5nG2b0hyq iIjGIje3Q0gndOy_GDqhUMlmD-tQP8), NGC 6867 (https://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fkosmoved.ru%2 Fget_ngcic.php%3FID%3DNGC-6867%26lang%3Deng%26fbclid%3DIwAR3s qKtvTe42irXX23RME8kR5Lu5rVfRxniPIsA h7GwP25cCoRRMiyUiQQw&h=AT2JDQbrfrZNQ82mR0Waz2filQ9YitSeb R2pqBBvQ3_pg0XEMcOlldEadaukHhvqmp3E 2x19X36ta9dtGUQfA98SBuLF2PIlTcrOn9Z 5uOwAD9390LX06O4q4tPM8cgx2m5GAAk7GW qNhspUz0yh&__tn__=-UK-R&c[0]=AT2hhI3jAwNc03pRWYVhxWKnGd9uo4K2TG J0heZVNh3w7PTGmdfsBgcsNa8HKMe6tVMZl wF3WPXBSIoNhDhpRNcV6yoRlBHIObgB3-a2eMJ8dWLUCW6X1wOIP2n1JKqb5nG2b0hyq iIjGIje3Q0gndOy_GDqhUMlmD-tQP8), NGC 6869 (https://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fkosmoved.ru%2 Fget_ngcic.php%3FID%3DNGC-6869%26lang%3Deng%26fbclid%3DIwAR2A qVKQHec0IgIb87qogtOVhmI7H14PF4pjbU1 uUXw2H9R1rPIq7PY7FTA&h=AT1d5fTnZqRLslm3ZTXjHIu8c4Oko5Zw9 BPBiiYnKHqX_dqGFylDWqJkW3I1hB5SSeIM G0xtEEvGAmtVP--iBrbgU4UPq8A7C7ga8KuhcsMzTMli6__7nf 9sk5UFuwvpXC5uOorVVYr8xaTEabPQ&__tn__=-UK-R&c[0]=AT2hhI3jAwNc03pRWYVhxWKnGd9uo4K2TG J0heZVNh3w7PTGmdfsBgcsNa8HKMe6tVMZl wF3WPXBSIoNhDhpRNcV6yoRlBHIObgB3-a2eMJ8dWLUCW6X1wOIP2n1JKqb5nG2b0hyq iIjGIje3Q0gndOy_GDqhUMlmD-tQP8), NGC 6870 (https://kosmoved.ru/get_ngcic.php?ID=NGC-6870&lang=eng&fbclid=IwAR2mmrGI5KMqfnEt9j63En7aMd AoJU4X_ojmEo3wt6hIwrBaJO7fn3cjLx4)
2.5 hours in 30 frames 19/8/2023 between 7 and 10pm before I had issues with tracking, if its not one thing its something else. In this image are also NGC 6870, 6871 and a couple of others not identified

petershah
21-08-2023, 05:06 PM
Nice shot, this reminds me of the Markarians chain of galaxies up here in the North