HS1626+6433 -- Quasar in Draco

The most distant object I have 'seen' -- 11.0 billion light years.

 

Dimmest object I have imaged and identified, apparent magnitude +16.3.

 

Captured 24 Jun 2021, 23:57 hrs ET, Springfield, VA, USA. Bortle 8 skies, Mallincam DS10C camera, Celestron 8 inch SCT f/10, exposure 7 sec, gain 20, bin 2, live stack of 50 light frames, dark and flat frames subtracted, no filter.

 

Clouds: partly cloudy

Seeing: ok

Transparency: ok

Moon phase: 100%

 

From Astrometry.net:

FOV: 20 x 27 arcmin after crop

Resolution: 0.9 arcsec/pixel

Orientation: Up is xx

 

From NASA/IPAC Extragalactic Database (NED):

 

Cross-identifications: WISE J162645.60+642655.0; WISEA J162645.67+642655.0; 2MASS J16264568+6426551; 2MASSi J1626456+642655; KODIAQ J162645+642655

 

Distance: 11.0 billion light years

[Note: Estimated age of the Universe is 13.8 billion years. Measurement of distance is complex problem at this scale. ]

 

Redshift: z = 2.32

Type: QSO

Apparent magnitude: +16.3

Apparent size: --

 

Appearance: dim star-like object. Target area plate solved in Sharpcap; unambiguous visual ID via Stellarium.

Note to self: stars dimmer than the QSO are visible in the image, try to identify a mag + 17 or dimmer star.

 

Done