Your skills: Intermediate (some years) Date/time of observation: 7/9/99, 7:00 UT Location of site: New Haven, Missouri (Lat N 38, Elev ~700') Site classification: Rural Sky darkness: 5 <1-10 Scale (10 best)> Seeing: 6 <1-10 Seeing Scale (10 best)> Moon presence: None Instrument: 30" f/4 dob, 13" f/4.5 dob Magnification: 150x-540x Category: External galaxy Class: Sc Constellation: Cepheus Data: mag 9.6b size 11.6'x9.8 Position: RA 20h:34m 52s DEC +60:09' 15"
Description: Moderately bright with slightly brighter central condensation. This is a type Sc galaxy but it had the appearance of a barred spiral with a stubby arm coming off each end of the bar. The upper (sorry, I once again forgot to write in my notes where north was - hopefully the scanned drawing will help) arm was split into two amaller arms. These observations were not immediately obvious on this night. However, I noted that this structure was obvious while observing from a dark sky site with a 13" dob 7/27/90.