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1ES 1959+650 -- BL Lac Object in Draco

Captured 25 Jun 2021, 01:01 hrs ET, Springfield, VA, USA. Bortle 8 skies, Mallincam DS10C camera, Celestron 8 inch SCT f/10, exposure 7 sec, gain 20, bin 2, stack of 52 light frames, dark and flat frames subtracted, no filter.

 

Clouds: partly cloudy

Seeing: ok

Transparency: ok

Moon phase: 100%

 

From Astrometry.net:

FOV: 17 x 19 arcmin after crop

Resolution: 0.5 arcsec/pixel

Orientation: Up is East

 

From NED:

Cross-identifications: WISE J195959.83+650854.7

Distance: 649 million light years

Redshift: z=0.047

Type: BL Lac

Apparent magnitude: +11.2

Apparent size: 45 arcsec

 

Appearance: very small dim galaxy near limit of visibility under these conditions. Target area plate solved in Sharpcap; visual ID via Stellarium. Could not match to higher resolution finder images in NED.

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Uploaded on June 25, 2021
Taken on June 25, 2021