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NGC 7541 in Pisces
Date of Observation .... January 9, 2021 |
This galaxy is in western Pisces, just to the upper right of the Circlet. It
is listed in my planetarium software as being of magnitude 11.7, with a magnitde 13
companion galaxy, NGC 7537. The galaxy is 104 million light years away (some
sources say even more), so it's almost twice the distance of most Virgo cluster
galaxies; it is an almost edge-on spiral. I found this galaxy to be barely visible, but not impossible; it was right next to the field star as shown in the image in my H400ii observing guide, but no structure or orientation was discernible. It was just a smudge requiring averted vision. |