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| Digitized Sky Survey (DSS) Image Information for NGC 1300 | |||
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| DSS Acknowledgement , DSS Copyright Notice | DSS Image Generation: 1st Generation DSS Image | ||
| Image Center (2000): 03h 19m 40.9s; -19º 24' 40" | Image File Name: n1300.jpg | ||
| Image Size (arcminutes): 10' x 10' | Image Size (pixels): 353 x 353 | ||
| Original NGC Catalogue Data for NGC 1300 | |||
| General Catalogue Designation: 689 | William Herschel Designation: ... | ||
| John Herschel Designation: 2522 | Other Observers: ... | ||
| Right Ascension (Equinox 1860): 03h 13m 23s | Annual RA Precession (Equinox 1880): +2.71s | ||
| North Polar Declination (Equinox 1860): 109° 55.1' | Annual DEC Precession (Equinox 1880): -13.3" | ||
| Summary Description: cB, vL, vmE, psvmbM | |||
| Notes: … | Comments: … | ||
| Discovered by: John Frederick William Herschel (1792 - 1871) | Year of Discovery: 1835 | ||
| Telescope Aperture (Inches): 18.7 | Telescope Type: Reflector | ||
| Understanding the 'Summary Description': Summary Description Abbreviations List | |||
| Contemporary/Current Data for NGC 1300 | |||
| Right Ascension (2000): 03h 19m 40.9s | Declination (2000): -19º 24' 40" | ||
| Object Type: Galaxy | Object Classification: SBb I | ||
| Constellation: Eridanus | Position Angle: 106 ° | ||
| Visual Magnitude: 10.5 | Surface Brightness: 13.9 | ||
| Blue Magnitude: 11.1 | Object Size: 6.2'X4.1' | ||
| Also Cataloged As: | UA 66, MCG-03-09-018, ESO 547-G031, h 2522, GC 689, PGC 12412 | ||
| Catalogue Notes: --------------- | |||
| Book / Chart References for NGC 1300 | |||
| Luginbuhl & Skiff (Page): 111 | Burnham's (Volume : Page): ------ | ||
| Uranometria 2000: 311 | Herald-Bobroff Astroatlas: C-72,C-73,D-39 | ||
| Microsky: 773 | GSC Small Region Number: 5875 | ||
| POSS Blue Plate #: 947 | POSS Red Plate #: 947 | ||
| Database Update Level: 2 (Complete) | |||
| Contemporary Visual Observation(s) for NGC 1300 | |||
NGC 1300 = ESO 547-031 = MCG -03-09-018 = UGCA 66 = PGC 12412 03 19 41.0 -19 24 40 V = 10.4; Size 6.2x4.1; SB = 13.8; PA = 106d 17.5": fairly bright, elongated ~E-W, bright core, stellar nucleus. A spiral arm is visible at the west end (of the central bar) curving to the north. 8": faint, fairly large, elongated, low surface brightness, diffuse. | |||
| Data Sources Used to research NGC 1300 | |||
| [NGC] New General Catalogue / [IC] Index Catalogue (Dreyer - 1888, 1895, 1908) [OHCDSO] Observing Handbook and Catalog of Deep-Sky Objects (Luginbuhl & Skiff - 1990) [RE-NGCDDB] NGC Discoverer's Database (Erdmann 1990 - 2006) [ESO] The ESO Uppsala Survey of the ESO(B) Atlas (Lauberts - 1982) [SGC] Southern Galaxy Catalog (Corwin - 1985) [MCG] Morphological Catalog of Galaxies (Vorontsov-Velyaminov et al - 1962 thru 1968) [UGC] Uppsala General Catalog of Galaxies (Nilson - 1973) [HC-PPL] NGC/IC Accurate Positions List Database (Corwin - 1996 thru 2006) [SG-NGCO] NGC/IC Observations Database (Gottlieb - 1998 thru 2006) [RE-AZDB] The Arizona Database®, V15.5 (Erdmann - 1987 thru 2006) [DSS] Digitized Sky Survey - 1st (102 CD-ROM) and 2nd (Web Site) Generation (STScI - 1994) [NED] NASA's Extragalactic Database (NED) located at http://nedwww.ipac.caltech.edu/ | |||
| Additional Notes | |||
| • 1st generation images were generated from the 102 CD-ROM version of the Digitized Sky Survey (DSS) • 2nd generation images were generated at the DSS web site located at http://archive.stsci.edu/cgi-bin/dsswin • Luginbuhl & Skiff page numbers are from 'Observing Handbook and Catalogue of Deep-Sky Objects' by Christian B. Luginbuhl and Brian A. Skiff, produced by Cambridge University Press • Burnham's refers to 'Burnham's Celestial Handbook' in three volumes produced by Dover Publications, Inc. • Uranometria 2000 chart numbers are for those printings authored by Tirion, Rappaport & Lovi, and are not for the most recent printings authored by Tirion, Rappaport & Remaklus in which the charts were re-numbered, all of which were and/or are produced by Willmann-Bell, Inc. • The Herald-Bobroff Astroatlas is by D. Herald and P. Bobroff of Canberra, Australia and is produced by HB2000 Publications • Microsky® is the microfiche rendition of the Palomar Observatory Sky Survey (POSS) produced by Deen Publications (P.O. Box 867088; Plano Texas 75086) • POSS refers to the Palomar Observatory Sky Survey produced by The National Geographic Society in conjunction with The California Institute of Technology • All DSS image annotation was performed by Robert E. Erdmann, Jr., and is ©Copyright 1996 through 2008 by Robert E. Erdmann, Jr. - All rights reserved • All product names, trademarks, and copyrights are the property of their respective owners • Contemporary/Current Data for this object was hand collected and entered from the data sources listed in the "Data Sources Used" section of this table above.- Robert E. Erdmann, Jr. | |||
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