Spiral Galaxies NGC 1094 & MCG 0-8-14

Spiral Galaxies NGC 1094 and MCG 0-8-14

This is a 5 minute exposure with an ST-6 CCD camera thru Kopernik's 20-inch F/8.1 Ritchey Chretien Cassegrain telescope. The field of view is about 5x7 arc minutes.

The red shift of both of these spiral galaxies is about the same, and gives a distance estimate for the pair of 340 million light years (Hubble Constant of 62 Km/sec per Mpc) and a diameter of 128,600 light years for NGC 1094 and 49,100 light years for MCG 08-8-14. The distance between them is roughly 150,000 Light Years. The Kopernik image was taken under poor sky conditions and the exposure is too short to show NGC 1094's spiral arms.

Other galaxies within this region of the Constellation of Cetus include M-77 and its companion NGC 1055, plus NGC 1087, and NGC 1090.

NGC 1094

Magnitude: 13.43

Constellation: Cetus

RA: 02h 47m 27.4s

Dec: -00°17'07" Epoch 2000

Size (mins): 1.3 x 1.0

Classification: Sbc I-II
Spiral Galaxy,
Luminosity Class I-II

MCG 0-8-14

Magnitude: 15.6

Constellation: Cetus

RA: 02h 47m 27.5s

Dec: -00°15'30" Epoch 2000

Size (mins): 0.5' x 0.2'

Classification: Spiral Galaxy

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George Normandin, KAS

March 7th, 1999