Observations of NGC2903
These are the observations available for NGC2903. If you have any of your own that you'd like to submit we'd love to put them on the website.
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A Galaxy and a Flame
Last night's weather conditions could not have been better. I had a wonderful clear sky all night. This is something that we don't often see under British Skies.
This was good enough that I was able to finally save some ancient light from two targets. The first one is in the constellation Auriga, and the other one, in the late Winter-Spring constellation Leo.
NGC 2903 is a field barred spiral galaxy about 30 million light-years away in the constellation Leo. It was discovered by William Herschel who catalogued it on November 16, 1784. NGC 2905 is a bright star cloud within this galaxy. NGC 2903 has a very high speed of creating new stars in the central region. Wikipedia
- Distance to Earth: 30.66 million light years
- Magnitude: 9.7
- Apparent magnitude (V): 9.7
- Apparent size (V): 12'.6 × 6'.0
- Redshift: 556 ± 1 km/s
- Constellation: Leo
Barred Spiral NGC 2903 in Leo taken by Paul A Brierley using an Altair 115 EDT with an Atik 428EX and Atik EFWII. My picture was taken with 5-minute exposures x36 to give a total exposure time 3hrs.
IC 405 is an emission and reflection nebula in the constellation Auriga, surrounding the bluish star AE Aurigae. It shines at magnitude +6.0. Its celestial coordinates are RA 05h 16.2m dec +34° 28'. Wikipedia
- Magnitude: 6
- Apparent magnitude (V): 6
- Distance: 1500 ly
- Coordinates: RA 5h 16m 5s | Dec +34° 27' 49"
- Constellation: Auriga
The Flame Nebula (IC 405) in Auriga taken by Paul A Brierley using an Altair 115 EDT with an Atik 428EX and Atik EFWII. This picture was again 5 minutes in length. I took 24 exposures for this two-hour composite, using a 7nm Ha filter.
Paul A Brierley - (3 February 2019).
