Messier 102

7/07/2005

Messier 102

According to SEDS, M102 is a rather controversial object. Evidently good old Charles included the object in his catalog based on an observation of his friend, Pierre Méchain. Problem is Charles didn’t verify the observation before publication and the published position is wrong – opps. Today M102 is commonly accepted to be the Lenticular Galaxy NGC 5866 in Draco, also sometimes called the Spindle Galaxy.

I captured M102 using a 12.5 inch f/9 RCOS Ritchey-Chrétien telescope with an SBIG ST10XME and AO7. The image is a combination of 6 – 10 minute exposures.

There are 4 comments in this article:

  1. 18/07/2005Casey says:

    What happened to the K2 theme? I thought it looked pretty good…

  2. 18/07/2005Chris says:

    I installed K2 Alpha 4 and it wasn’t quite ready for release. Rather than go back to Alpha 3 I’m hanging out with good ole Kubrick while Michael works on Alpha 4. I agree K2 is looking sweet!

  3. 25/07/2005Wayne Larimore - his bloggin' Weighs says:

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