The BGO robot tried to image NGC 936 for me but an error occurred. BGO said "likely clouds" but I bet it was the brightening sky.
A peculiar galaxy in Cetus. One of the RASC Finest NGCs. I only received luminance and red data. There's also a slight gradient. Whoa, there are a lot of little galaxies in there...
Luminance only, 60 seconds subexposures, 10 stacked shots. FITS Liberator, Paint.NET. North is up; left is east.
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Dove deep to ID the faint fuzzies. With the help of SkyTools 3 Pro, I labelled a bunch, about 20 objects!
Working clockwise from 12. Mostly galaxies.
LEDA 1126510. Canted galaxy to the north-north-west of NGC 936.
LEDA 1127784. A very faint large object beyond 1126510.
LEDA 1126331. A small amorphous fuzz ball to the north-west.
LEDA 1128467. A small faint oval to the north-west.
LEDA 1127666. An elongated wisp to the north-west.
LEDA 1123709. A long thin edge-on special galaxy to the south-west.
LEDA 1122209. Another long thin smudge, to the south-east.
MCG 0-7-20. A very large galaxy to the south-east. A curious shape. Cut-off on the edge of the image.
Quasar PKS 0225-14. Bright. Magnitude 18.6 in V. Redshift (z): 2.04. Light Time: 8.9 Gyr.
LEDA 1124005. Nearly round medium size fuzz to the east-south-east.
LEDA 1124940. Bottom of a pentagon of fuzzies close to and east of 936.
LEDA 1125075. Bottom-left of a pentagon of fuzzies close to and east of 936.
LEDA 1125124. Bottom-right of a pentagon of fuzzies close to and east of 936.
LEDA 1125471. Top-left of a pentagon of fuzzies close to and east of 936. Somewhat bright.
LEDA 175102. Top-right of a pentagon of fuzzies close to and east of 936. Quite bright.
LEDA 1126032. Round fuzzy to the east-north-east of 936.
LEDA 1126571. A bright but small lint ball to the north-east of 936.
LEDA 1127342. A very faint diffuse object to the north-east.
LEDA 1127834. Round fuzzy to the north-east.
LEDA 1128676. Very faint oval to the north-north-east.
LEDA 1126906. Medium size faint round fuzzy to the north-north-east.
I circled a half-dozen other things in the image. Not identified at this stage.
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Imaged it again on 12 September and received all the LRGB data.
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Wikipedia link: NGC 936.
Monday, September 05, 2016
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