Your skills: Intermediate (some years) Date/time of observation: 9-9-99, 7:30 UT Location of site: New Haven, Missouri (Lat N 38, Elev ~700') Site classification: Rural Sky darkness: 5 <1-10 Scale (10 best)> Seeing: 4 <1-10 Seeing Scale (10 best)> Moon presence: None Instrument: 30" f/4, dob Magnification: 257x
Filter(s): none used Category: External galaxy. Class: SB(b) Constellation: Peg
Data: mag 11 size 4.1' x 3.2' Position: RA 23h:4.9m DEC +12:19m
Description: This is a beautiful barred spiral galaxy.
The central bar is fairly bright with a
brighter central condensation.
The arm to the west appeared as a nondescript faint haze but to
the south east was a beautiful, graceful, spiral arm
that curved back around a faint star positioned at the center of an almost
perfect semi-circle formed by the arm.