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Date of Observation ...... May 12, 2020 Instrument ............... 13.1" f/4.5 dobsonian Magnification ............ 76x Location ................. Fredericksburg, VA (light pollution map) Observer ................. Eric David Skies .................... clear, cold, somewhat humid, no Moon |
This galaxy was easy to locate, star-hopping from M61 up to the double star north of it, over to the northwest to a field star, then south-southwest to a pair of stars and then NGC 4270 was south of the pair. NGC 4273 and NGC 4281 were obvious in the field and helped to guide me to 4270 from the shape of the triangle they make. This galaxy is one I could detect without needing to know exactly where to look, so it was clearly more evident than many of other Herschel 400 ii galaxies in Virgo. Consulting my notes from my Herschel 400 i Virgo study, I see that NGC 4273 and NGC 4281 were on that list, and that I made reference to the fact that from a dark sky site in the mountains, I easily swept up NGC 4270 as well. |