Spiral Galaxy NGC 6015

This is a 10 minute exposure with an ST-6 CCD camera thru Kopernik's 20-inch Ritchey Chretien Cassegrain telescope, working at F/4.9. The field of view is about 9x12.5 arc minutes.

Quote from the Deep Sky Field Guide to Uranometria 2000:

Very small, bright nucleus in complex center with many dark lanes,
many knotty arms in bright lens.

Based on the published red shift, (Hubble Constant of 62 Km/sec per Mpc) a rough distance estimate is 44 million light years, with a diameter of about 70,000 light years for NGC 6015.

• NGC 6015
• Magnitude: 11.7
• Constellation: Draco
• RA: 15h 51m 25.5s
• Dec: +62d 18' 36" Epoch 2000
• Size (mins): 5.4 x 2.1
• Classification: SA(s)cd II-III
                          Spiral, S-shaped, Luminosity Class II-III
  
  

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George Normandin, KAS

October 1st, 1998