{"id":493,"date":"2009-10-03T23:41:53","date_gmt":"2009-10-03T23:41:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/perezmedia.net\/beltofvenus\/2009\/10\/03\/messier_89_ngc\/"},"modified":"2009-10-03T23:41:53","modified_gmt":"2009-10-03T23:41:53","slug":"messier_89_ngc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/perezmedia.net\/beltofvenus\/2009\/10\/03\/messier_89_ngc\/","title":{"rendered":"Messier 89 (NGC 4552)"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Sketch<\/a><\/p>\n

Sketch of Messier 89 (NGC 4552)<\/p>\n

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

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

Elliptical galaxy, Messier 89 was a simple visual object: small, circular, about 2 arc minutes in diameter with a stellar appearing core. A double star punctuated the view about 8 arc minutes to the northeast.<\/p>\n

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

Sketch\/DSS Photo Comparison of Messier 89 (NGC 4552)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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

M89 lies 50 to 65 million light years away in the Virgo Cluster. This featureless Elliptical (E0) galaxy is either a weak Seyfert Galaxy or LINER object with a billion solar mass black hole at its core. Deep imaging by David Malin with the UK Schmidt telescope has revealed a faint envelope around M89 that appears to the south and northwest. This structure is possibly the remnant of an interacting companion galaxy. M89 was discovered by Charles Messier in 1781, and is also cataloged as NGC 4552, UGC 7760, MCG+02-32-149, CGCG 070.184, h 1348, GC 3097, VCC 1632, PGC 41968.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Subject<\/b><\/td>\nM89 (NGC 4552)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Classification<\/b><\/td>\nElliptical Galaxy (E0)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Position*<\/b><\/td>\nVirgo [RA: 12:35:39.9 \/ Dec: +12:33:23]<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Size*<\/b><\/td>\n5.1′ x 4.7′<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Brightness*<\/b><\/td>\n9.8 vMag; 10.7 bMag; 13.2 Surface Brightness<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Date\/Time<\/b><\/td>\nAPR 27, 2009 – 01:10 AM (APR 27, 2009 – 08:10 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 5.5 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":"

M089<\/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":[16,28,18,19,29,21,103,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-493","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-virgo","category-sketch-gallery"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":469,"url":"https:\/\/perezmedia.net\/beltofvenus\/2009\/05\/01\/messier_49_ngc\/","url_meta":{"origin":493,"position":0},"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":485,"url":"https:\/\/perezmedia.net\/beltofvenus\/2009\/09\/13\/m85_ngc_4486_ng\/","url_meta":{"origin":493,"position":1},"title":"Messier 87 (NGC 4486), NGC 4478, NGC 4476","author":"jperez1690","date":"September 13, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"M087","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":416,"url":"https:\/\/perezmedia.net\/beltofvenus\/2008\/07\/09\/m59\/","url_meta":{"origin":493,"position":2},"title":"Messier 59","author":"jperez1690","date":"July 9, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"M059","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":468,"url":"https:\/\/perezmedia.net\/beltofvenus\/2009\/04\/28\/messier_61_ngc\/","url_meta":{"origin":493,"position":3},"title":"Messier 61 (NGC 4303)","author":"jperez1690","date":"April 28, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"M061","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":487,"url":"https:\/\/perezmedia.net\/beltofvenus\/2009\/09\/21\/m91_ngc_4548\/","url_meta":{"origin":493,"position":4},"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":417,"url":"https:\/\/perezmedia.net\/beltofvenus\/2008\/07\/10\/m58\/","url_meta":{"origin":493,"position":5},"title":"Messier 58","author":"jperez1690","date":"July 10, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"M058","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\/493","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=493"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/perezmedia.net\/beltofvenus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/493\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/perezmedia.net\/beltofvenus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perezmedia.net\/beltofvenus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perezmedia.net\/beltofvenus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}