- Description: Galaxy M49 in Virgo. Not much to see in this image
unfortunately. M49 is an E2 elliptical galaxy about 9 x 7 arc minutes in size. Glows
at magnitude 9.4. The small galaxy to the right is NGC4470, 1.4 x 0.9 arc minutes, mag
13. Along the right edge is NGC4466, even smaller at 1.3 x 0.3 arc minutes, mag 14.4.
- Film: Hypered Kodak tech pan
- Scope: Celestron C14 at f7
- Exposure: 40 Minutes, manually guided.
- Location: Wilson Coulee Observatory, Alberta
- Date: January 4th, 1992
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