Faint Galaxies

[glenc]

The faintest galaxies in the NGC catalogue according to Dr. Wolfgang Steinicke are:

NGC 344 CET mag 16.1
NGC 2689 UMA mag 16.3
NGC 4042 COM mag 16.4
NGC 6148 HER mag 16.1
NGC 7551 PEG mag 16.2

The attached SkyMapPro map shows NGC 7551 at 11pm on 14/9.
It is in the top left corner of the square of Pegasus, 2d 40m east (pa 74d) of Markab.

The upsidedown www.wikisky.org (http://www.wikisky.org) image shows NGC 7551 next to a star, about half way between the galaxies NGC 7567 left and NGC 7540 right.

NGC 7551 was found by Albert Marth using a 48" reflector on Malta in 1864. He found 557 new galaxies.
http://www.klima-luft.de/steinicke/ngcic/persons/marth.htm

[glenc]

Steve Gottlieb's description

NGC 7551 23 15 21.9 +15 56 27
17.5" scope:
very faint, very small, round, 15" diameter, very small brighter core, stellar nucleus. Located 11.1' E of N7540.
The RNGC incorrectly identifies N7551 as a very compact galaxy just E of N7540.
http://www.ngcicproject.org/gottlieb/n7501-n7840c.txt

[glenc]

I saw NGC 7540 mag 15.7 and NGC 7567 mag 15.5 this morning with a 16" Dob at 200x. Both were very faint and were only seen using averted vision.
I did not see NGC 7551, but did see the mag 14.3 star next to it..

[Vegeta]

I saw NGC 2573 once. It's only mag 13.5, so it's not as faint as the other galaxies here. It is really close to the south pole and was a pain to find. The faintest objet that i've observed was neptune's moon Triton at magnitude 14.1