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Object: ARP 143 (NGC 2444 & 2445) |
Date: 2015 December 9
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| Peculiarity: Material emanating from elliptical galaxies. | |
| Constellation: Lynx | Time & altitude: 00.10 UT 62º |
| Catalogue data: | Seeing (5 high): 2/5 |
| R.A: 7h 47m | Transparency (5 high): 3/5 |
| Dec: +39º 02 | Telescope: 0.5m f4.1 Dob. |
| Magnitudes: 14.2 & 13.9 | Eyepiece: 8mm Ethos x260 |
| Galaxy sizes (mins): 1.2×0.8 & 1.4×1.1 | Filters: Lumicon Deep Sky |
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Notes: First observations since November 13. The Met Office say November has been the dullest (i.e. cloudiest) since records began in 1929. This object appears as a faint envelope aligned N-S with a galaxy core at each end. The N core (NGC 2444) seems the brighter despite having the fainter catalogue magnitude, no doubt because it is more compact. The N core is slightly oval. The S core has a knot either side of it to N and S. These knots were only seen intermittently. There are five knots in all but the other three were invisible. |
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