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.
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.