by DeanSalman » Sat Mar 26, 2011 5:05 am
NGC 3079 is a nice galaxy for any size telescope although a large one would bring out some very good structure. However, this is not the main reason I took this image, if offers a couple of unique In the very lower right corner you will come across AGC 899, a tiny galactic cluster. NGC 3073 sits to the lower right of NGC 3079 and CGCG 266-7 is to the upper right of NGC 3079. In the lower left of the image sites UGC 5421 around 18th mag.
The last object is hard to find. If you start with NGC 3079 and follow a straight line up you will come to 4 stars that look much like the southern cross in the southern hemisphere. Just to the right and slightly above the 4 stars is a tiny double star that has a bluest color. This object is known as the Twin Quasar and is 16.7 magnitude. Although it took just over 9 billion years to reach earth, the red shift of this object now places it 13.8 billion light years away today. I have a friend that knows all about Quasars and told me about this one. This marks the most distant object I ever imaged.
Taken with my 8 inch F/4 and the QSI 583 WSG and guided with the Starlight Xpress Lodestar. LRGB filters with AstroDon Series II. Taken at the San Pedro Valley observatory, Benson, AZ.
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Dean Salman
NGC 3079 is a nice galaxy for any size telescope although a large one would bring out some very good structure. However, this is not the main reason I took this image, if offers a couple of unique In the very lower right corner you will come across AGC 899, a tiny galactic cluster. NGC 3073 sits to the lower right of NGC 3079 and CGCG 266-7 is to the upper right of NGC 3079. In the lower left of the image sites UGC 5421 around 18th mag.
The last object is hard to find. If you start with NGC 3079 and follow a straight line up you will come to 4 stars that look much like the southern cross in the southern hemisphere. Just to the right and slightly above the 4 stars is a tiny double star that has a bluest color. This object is known as the Twin Quasar and is 16.7 magnitude. Although it took just over 9 billion years to reach earth, the red shift of this object now places it 13.8 billion light years away today. I have a friend that knows all about Quasars and told me about this one. This marks the most distant object I ever imaged.
Taken with my 8 inch F/4 and the QSI 583 WSG and guided with the Starlight Xpress Lodestar. LRGB filters with AstroDon Series II. Taken at the San Pedro Valley observatory, Benson, AZ.
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Dean Salman