Observations of NGC52
These are the observations available for NGC52. 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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NGC 52 in Pegasus
Here we have NGC52 in Pegasus, a first sketch of this object, nice fairly faint edge on with obvious dust lane running SE-NW. Circa 14th mag I believe, diameter 137,000 ly, distance 247mly.
Sketch of NGC 52 by Dale Holt from his Chippingdale observatory in Hertfordshire. I made the sketch last night (24-10-19) using the 505mm mirror, cooled Watec 120N analogue video camera.
Dale Holt - (25 October 2019).
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A Morning with Galaxies and a Cluster
Here are a few observations from the morning of April 27th 2017. My primary aim was to follow up on an observation that I made with Andrew Robertson, Owen Brazell and Callum Potter at Kelling using Andrew's driven 24" Dobsonian of the NGC 5222 group in Virgo.
My effort was reasonably successful, however the field of view using the Watec camera is small and I couldn't match the field of the eyepiece view.
Sketch of NGC5222 by Dale Holt from his Chippingdale observatory in Hertfordshire. After this I took the chance of going low into Ophiuchus and getting a sketch of M12 which was missing from my Messier sketch archives. I used the 6" triplet refractor and older uncooled Watec video camera as globulars being very bright tend to saturate the camera using the big mirror.
Sketch of M12 by Dale Holt from his Chippingdale observatory in Hertfordshire. After I had sketched M12 I moved back to the 20" and searched the cluster finding 3 tiny faint galaxies in the outer fringe, fascinating. Unfortunately I haven't been able to id them. (Ed. This image shows these galaxies nicely on the lower left edge of M12.)
Close up sketch of a group of faint galaxies on the edge of M12 by Dale Holt from his Chippingdale observatory in Hertfordshire. Dale Holt - (2 May 2017).
