{"id":443,"date":"2008-11-24T02:33:20","date_gmt":"2008-11-24T02:33:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/perezmedia.net\/beltofvenus\/2008\/11\/24\/ngc_404_mirachs\/"},"modified":"2021-11-28T01:07:50","modified_gmt":"2021-11-28T01:07:50","slug":"ngc_404_mirachs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/perezmedia.net\/beltofvenus\/2008\/11\/24\/ngc_404_mirachs\/","title":{"rendered":"NGC 404 – The Ghost of Mirach"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Observation Notes:<\/b><\/p>\n

What a beautiful sight! The soft, round galaxy shared the view with the brilliant, citrusy orange Mirach. The galaxy itself had a gradual condensation toward the center. Seeing was too soft to see whether the core was stellar though. It appeared to be about 1.5 – 2 arc minutes in diameter. Mirach’s blazing orange light exploded with a glow about three times the apparent diameter of the galaxy.<\/p>\n

This was first light for the Pentax XW 10 eyepiece I received last Thursday. The view was fantastic, even with poor seeing. Diffraction patterns were beautiful to observe, and contrast was excellent. Even with Mirach in the field, NGC 404 was not a challenge to see at both 120X and 240X (with the barlow).<\/p>\n

Object Information:<\/b><\/p>\n

NGC 404 was discovered by Friedrich Wilhelm Herschel in 1784. It is also cataloged as: UGC 718, MCG+06-03-018, PGC 4126, H II-224, h 89, GC 218, CGCG 520.020, LGG 011-009<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Subject<\/b><\/td>\nNGC 404<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Classification*<\/b><\/td>\nGalaxy (SA(s)0)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Position*<\/b><\/td>\nAndromeda [RA: 01:09:26.9 \/ Dec: +35:43:04]<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Size*<\/b><\/td>\n3.5′ x 3.5′<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Brightness*<\/b><\/td>\n10.2 vMag (11.2 bMag)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Date\/Time<\/b><\/td>\nNOV 24, 2008 – 01:00 AM MST (NOV 24, 2008 – 8:00 UT)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Observing Loc.<\/b><\/td>\nFlagstaff, Arizona, USA – Home<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Instrument<\/b><\/td>\nOrion SkyQuest XT8 (203 mm dia.\/1200 mm F\/L)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Eyepieces\/Mag.<\/b><\/td>\nPentax XW 10 + 2X Barlow (240X)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Conditions<\/b><\/td>\nClear, calm, cold<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Seeing<\/b><\/td>\n3\/10 Pickering<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Transparency<\/b><\/td>\n~ Mag 5.8 NELM<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
*References<\/b><\/td>\nNGCIC.org<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

NGC 0404<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,28,19,29,30,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-443","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-deep-sky","category-galaxy","category-sg-deep-sky","category-sg-galaxy","category-sgc-andromeda","category-sketch-gallery"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":422,"url":"https:\/\/perezmedia.net\/beltofvenus\/2008\/07\/25\/ngc_5866_m102\/","url_meta":{"origin":443,"position":0},"title":"NGC 5866 (Messier 102)","author":"jperez1690","date":"July 25, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"NGC 5866","rel":"","context":"In "Deep Sky"","block_context":{"text":"Deep Sky","link":"https:\/\/perezmedia.net\/beltofvenus\/category\/deep-sky\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":493,"url":"https:\/\/perezmedia.net\/beltofvenus\/2009\/10\/03\/messier_89_ngc\/","url_meta":{"origin":443,"position":1},"title":"Messier 89 (NGC 4552)","author":"jperez1690","date":"October 3, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"M089","rel":"","context":"In "Deep Sky"","block_context":{"text":"Deep Sky","link":"https:\/\/perezmedia.net\/beltofvenus\/category\/deep-sky\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":484,"url":"https:\/\/perezmedia.net\/beltofvenus\/2009\/09\/07\/m85_ngc_4382_an\/","url_meta":{"origin":443,"position":2},"title":"Messier 85 (NGC 4382) and NGC 4394","author":"jperez1690","date":"September 7, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"M085","rel":"","context":"In "Deep Sky"","block_context":{"text":"Deep Sky","link":"https:\/\/perezmedia.net\/beltofvenus\/category\/deep-sky\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":101,"url":"https:\/\/perezmedia.net\/beltofvenus\/2005\/02\/04\/m96_m105_and_ng\/","url_meta":{"origin":443,"position":3},"title":"Messier 96, Messier 105 and NGC 3384","author":"jperez1690","date":"February 4, 2005","format":false,"excerpt":"M096","rel":"","context":"In "Deep Sky"","block_context":{"text":"Deep Sky","link":"https:\/\/perezmedia.net\/beltofvenus\/category\/deep-sky\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":469,"url":"https:\/\/perezmedia.net\/beltofvenus\/2009\/05\/01\/messier_49_ngc\/","url_meta":{"origin":443,"position":4},"title":"Messier 49 (NGC 4472)","author":"jperez1690","date":"May 1, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"M049","rel":"","context":"In "Deep Sky"","block_context":{"text":"Deep Sky","link":"https:\/\/perezmedia.net\/beltofvenus\/category\/deep-sky\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":62,"url":"https:\/\/perezmedia.net\/beltofvenus\/2004\/12\/01\/m33_triangulum\/","url_meta":{"origin":443,"position":5},"title":"Messier 33 – Triangulum Galaxy and NGC 604","author":"jperez1690","date":"December 1, 2004","format":false,"excerpt":"M033","rel":"","context":"In "Deep Sky"","block_context":{"text":"Deep Sky","link":"https:\/\/perezmedia.net\/beltofvenus\/category\/deep-sky\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]}],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/perezmedia.net\/beltofvenus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/443","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/perezmedia.net\/beltofvenus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/perezmedia.net\/beltofvenus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perezmedia.net\/beltofvenus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perezmedia.net\/beltofvenus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=443"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/perezmedia.net\/beltofvenus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/443\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":890,"href":"https:\/\/perezmedia.net\/beltofvenus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/443\/revisions\/890"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/perezmedia.net\/beltofvenus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=443"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perezmedia.net\/beltofvenus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=443"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perezmedia.net\/beltofvenus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}