[back] NGC 5068 in Virgo [NED]

 

Type: SBc, distance ~ 6.9Mpc/22MLy

 

60"

 

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CCD: ST10 XME
Image Type, Orientation: LRGB Composite, North is at 11:45h
Exposure time: L: 16x300 sec. 1x1 bin, R,G,B: 4x300 sec. 2x2 bin
Exposure date: June 11th, 2004
Location: Capella Observatory at Amani Lodge, Kupferberg near Windhoek, Namibia
Filter: FR03 + Astronomik
Typ II LRGB filters
Instrument: Ganymed 60cm-Hypergraph in secondary focus, f=4800 mm
Image seeing (FWHM): 2.4"
Photographer:  Josef Pöpsel, Beate Behle
   
Remarks:

As M83 and NGC 5128 NGC 5068 belongs to the so called NGC 5128 group.
Image processed with CCDSharp and DDP.
 

 
Bemerkungen:

Wie M83 und NGC 5128 gehört NGC 5068 zu der so genannten NGC 5128-Gruppe.
Das Bild wurde mit Hilfe von CCDSharp und DDP bearbeitet.

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