AstroGallery

NGC3166/NGC3169/NGC3165

NGC3166/NGC3169/NGC3165

Click on photo for a larger image.

Object Notes:
  • Constellation: Sextens
  • ngc3166
    • Location: RA: 10h 13m 48s Dec: 03d 26' 00" Epoch 2000
    • Size: 4.8 x 1.9 arc-minutes
    • Magnitude: 10.4
    • Type: Elliptical
    • AKA: ugc5516
  • ngc3169
    • Location: RA: 10h 14m 12s Dec: 03d 28' 00" Epoch 2000
    • Size: 4.2 x 2.9 arc-minutes
    • Magnitude: 10.2
    • Type: Elliptical
    • AKA: ugc5525
  • ngc3165
    • Location: RA: 10h 13m 30s Dec: 03d 22' 00" Epoch 2000
    • Size: 1.3 x 0.7 arc-minutes
    • Magnitude: 13.9
    • Type: Spiral
    • AKA: ugc5512
Instrument: Ritchey-Chretien 32" Telescope
Focal Ratio: f7.2 (prime focus)
Camera: SBIG STL-11000 CCD camera
(See product review in July, 2004 issue of Sky & Telescope magazine.)
Exposure: 12 x 5 minutes Luminance unbinned
4 x 5 minutes each R/G/B unbinned
Guiding: Off-Axis with STV Autoguider (Santa Barbara Instrument Group)
(See product review in May, 2003 issue of Astronomy magazine.)
See Photo/Guiding Equipment.
Date: 3/1/06
Post Processing: CCDSoft, CCDSharp, MaxIM DL, Photoshop CS

Sky Map