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NGC 2541 in Lynx
Date of Obs ..... March 3, 2021 |
This galaxy is also in a barren area, even by Lynx' standards LOL! I did not even try to see this object at 76x, so my initial stab was at 123x, and using a wide angle eyepiece at that magnification, I was able to barely see a nebulous patch. The surface brightness was very low; the object was really barely at the threshhold of detection, and of course exhibited no structure. According to the statistics on this galaxy, it should be bigger than most of the others I observed on this night, but it did not look larger to me ~ that must be a function of the outer regions being so dim that I could not see them. This reference shows that the galaxy is face-on and therefore of low surface brightness even though it is only about 40 million light years away. |