{"id":486,"date":"2009-09-20T02:08:54","date_gmt":"2009-09-20T02:08:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/perezmedia.net\/beltofvenus\/2009\/09\/20\/m88_ngc_4501\/"},"modified":"2009-09-20T02:08:54","modified_gmt":"2009-09-20T02:08:54","slug":"m88_ngc_4501","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/perezmedia.net\/beltofvenus\/2009\/09\/20\/m88_ngc_4501\/","title":{"rendered":"Messier 88 (NGC 4501)"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Sketch<\/a><\/p>\n

Sketch of Messier 88 (NGC 4501)<\/p>\n

Click image to view larger version.<\/i><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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

During the first few minutes of my observation, M88 appeared to be simply an elongated galaxy with a strongly condensed core aligned at about 135 degrees. After much time glued to the eyepiece, the northwest and southern edges took a slightly brighter appearance. A short north-south axis appeared between these brighter regions, suggesting a clockwise spiral form. A star marked the southeastern tip and a bold double star anchored the view about 6 arc minutes to the south.<\/p>\n

\"Sketch\/DSS<\/p>\n

Sketch\/DSS Photo Comparison of Messier 88 (NGC 4501)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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

M88 lies about 60 million light years distant, is estimated to be 130,000 light years in diameter and is receding at 2000 km\/second. It was discovered by Charles Messier in 1781, and is also cataloged as NGC 4501, UGC 7675, MCG+03-32-059, h 1312, GC 3049, CGCG 099.076, VCC 1401, PGC 41517.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Subject<\/b><\/td>\nM88 (NGC 4501)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Classification<\/b><\/td>\nSpiral Galaxy (Sb\/Sc I)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Position*<\/b><\/td>\nComa Berenices [RA: 12:31:59.1 \/ Dec: +14:25:15]<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Size*<\/b><\/td>\n6.9′ x 3.7′ – PA: 140&deg<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Brightness*<\/b><\/td>\n9.7 vMag; 10.3 bMag; 13.1 Surface Brightness<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Date\/Time<\/b><\/td>\nAPR 27, 2009 – 12:15 AM (APR 27, 2009 – 07:15 UT)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Observing Loc.<\/b><\/td>\nFlagstaff, Arizona – Home<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Instrument<\/b><\/td>\nOrion SkyQuest XT8 Dobsonian (203 mm dia.\/1200 mm F\/L)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Eyepieces\/Mag.<\/b><\/td>\nPentax XW10 (120X)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Conditions<\/b><\/td>\nClear, calm, porch lights<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Seeing<\/b><\/td>\n5\/10<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Transparency<\/b><\/td>\nMag 5.8 NELM<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
*Sources<\/b><\/td>\nSEDS; NGC\/IC Project<\/a>; DSS<\/a>; Starry Night Pro Plus 5; Atlas of the Messier Objects<\/i> – Ronald Stoyan<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

M088<\/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":[16,28,18,19,29,21,89,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-486","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-deep-sky","category-galaxy","category-messier","category-sg-deep-sky","category-sg-galaxy","category-sg-messier","category-sgc-coma-berenices","category-sketch-gallery"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":487,"url":"https:\/\/perezmedia.net\/beltofvenus\/2009\/09\/21\/m91_ngc_4548\/","url_meta":{"origin":486,"position":0},"title":"Messier 91 (NGC 4548)","author":"jperez1690","date":"September 21, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"M091","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":471,"url":"https:\/\/perezmedia.net\/beltofvenus\/2009\/05\/06\/messier_99\/","url_meta":{"origin":486,"position":1},"title":"Messier 99 (NGC 4254)","author":"jperez1690","date":"May 6, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"M099","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":530,"url":"https:\/\/perezmedia.net\/beltofvenus\/2010\/03\/29\/messier_101_-_t\/","url_meta":{"origin":486,"position":2},"title":"Messier 101 – The Pinwheel Galaxy","author":"jperez1690","date":"March 29, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"M101","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":486,"position":3},"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":469,"url":"https:\/\/perezmedia.net\/beltofvenus\/2009\/05\/01\/messier_49_ngc\/","url_meta":{"origin":486,"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":484,"url":"https:\/\/perezmedia.net\/beltofvenus\/2009\/09\/07\/m85_ngc_4382_an\/","url_meta":{"origin":486,"position":5},"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":[]}],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/perezmedia.net\/beltofvenus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/486","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=486"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/perezmedia.net\/beltofvenus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/486\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/perezmedia.net\/beltofvenus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perezmedia.net\/beltofvenus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perezmedia.net\/beltofvenus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}