Iiro's DeepSky Sketches

Name: Hickson 91
RA: 22h 9m	DEC: -27° 45'
Constellation: PSA
Type: Compact galaxy group
Magnitude: 12.5 (v)
Notes: The brightest galaxy NGC 7214
Observer: Iiro Sairanen
Location: Wicherina, Greenough, Australia
Date: 11/12.1.2010 21:10
Instrument: Newton 254/1200 mm
Magnification: 171x	Filter: -
Field: 29'	Seeing: 2
Background sky: 1	NE lim mag: 7.5
Visuality: V	Height: 11°
Weather: +14°C, windy
Description: Difficult group on the low western sky. Only two galaxies (NGC 7214 and PGC 68160) are certainly visible. The stellar object on the north side of NGC 7214 might be a 15 mag galaxy PGC 16155.
Updated: 16.9.2010 22:04