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Date of Observation ...... January 9, 2021 Instrument ............... 13.1" f/4.5 dobsonian Magnification ............ 76x and 123x Location ................. Fredericksburg, VA (light pollution map) Observer ................. Eric David Skies .................... orange zone, clear, cold, dry |
This galaxy was not too difficult to find, but difficult to see. I found it to be barely at the edge of detectability, and was only able to see it with averted vision. I could not detect any structure, just the faint glow of the object at the correct location. This object is not difficult to locate: start at Beid and Zeid and follow the direction in which they point up to two widely spaced stars, then from the upper left-most of the two, go down to the southeast until you get to a short chain of three faint stars, joined to another branching chain of stars that make a bowl (open up). The galaxy is south of the bottom of the bowl just north of a field star. |