The Ursa Minor Spheroidal Dwarf Galaxy (UGC9749)

The Ursa Minor Dwarf Spheriodal Galaxy is the faintest known member of the local group of Galaxies with a surface brightness of 25.5 V-mag/arcsec^2. (ref 3). Distance is 225000 lightyears (ref 1)

 

RA: 15h09m08.5 / Dec: +67d13m21

 

Imaged on 4,5,6,10 & 11 May, 2018

Esprit 100 APO Refractor+QHY16200CCD @-20C/ IDAS LP2 filter.

 

Knight Observatory, Tomar

 

ref 1) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ursa_Minor_Dwarf

ref2 ) www.space.com/15619-faintest-globular-star-cluster.html

ref3) arxiv.org/pdf/astro-ph/0206144.pdf

 

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