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Date: August 23, 2014
Location: Blue Canyon at 5,200 feet in the Sierras
NELM: Average at 6.5
Telescope: 22” f/4.0 reflector sitting on a Crossbow EQT-200 equatorial platform
Eyepieces (not all are used): 24mm Panoptic (finder eyepiece), 16, 10, 6 and 4mm ZAO-II’s, 12.5, 9, 7 and 5mm BGO, 12, 10, 8, and 6mm Delos, and TMB 1.8x ED Barlow.
Selected objects: Eight VV objects
Images are from PanSTARRS unless noted.
Note: This page was added on June 2026 as I am catching up on the ORs for half of 2013 and all of 2014. At some point, I'll find a way to incorporate my ORs (mid 80s to 2008) from a spreadsheet into an acceptable format.
VV 152, UGC 9324 (14 29 50.7 +44 26 52)
22" (230, 255 and 328x) - Considerably faint even surface brightness 3:1 elongated glow with defined edges. Both ends are curved to the south. The west end is a little brighter than the east end. The east end is a little fainter than the body. The west end is extremely faint and appears just detached from the main glow. PA = 70 and 1.0' long. Note: Simbad incorrectly labeled UGC 9251 as VV 152.
VV 414 (19 10 59.1 +73 25 06) KPG 538
22" (255, 328 and 383x) - Two galaxies with one literally lost in the glare of a foreground star that is in the center of ‘b’.
Component a, NGC 6786, is bright round with defined edges. An extremely faint arm was detected starting at the south end going clockwise about 60 degrees. 0.4' across.
Component b, UGC 11415, is almost lost in the glare but detected from time to time. I'm not 100% sure if I picked it up.
VV 487, MCG+10-22-28 (15 38 10.0 +57 36 13)
22" (230, 255 and 328x) - Faint round diffuse even surface brightness glow. 0.3' across. The knot on the south edge was not detected.
VV 626, NGC 6090 (16 11 40.6 +52 27 26) KPG 486
22" (328, 383 and 690x) - Double galaxy resolved as two separate nearly stellar cores. Less than 10" apart and needed 383x to split them. The combined halo is even surface brightness and 0.5' across. No streamers detected. I didn't look for the very small galaxies on the SE side.
Nearby galaxies: PGC 57421 is a faint small round glow. Lies 2.5' due west. Continuing another 2.5' west, there is another galaxy, UGC 10261 (just off the right edge of the image), that appeared as a considerably bright round glow.
VV 629 (16 11 45.8 +60 34 56) KPG 488
22" (255, 328 and 383x) - Component a (MCG+10-23-38, Mrk 874) is considerably faint, even surface brightness 3:1 glow with defined edges. PA = 0 and 0.4' long.
Component b (PGC 93132, Mrk 874B) lies just 0.2' east and is a faint compact slightly elongated even surface brightness glow with defined edges. PA = 20 and 0.2' long.
VV 672 (18 33 33.2 +67 07 42) = NGC 6677 galaxy trio
22" (328 and 383x) - Trio of galaxies in a rough N-S line. Starting at the north end, component b, MCG+11-22-56, is a faint very small round even surface brightness glow with defined edges. 0.2' across. About 0.5' south, component a, NGC 6679, is considerably bright 3:2 elongated glow with a slightly brighter center. PA = 135 and 0.2' long. Another 1.5' ESE from MCG+11-22-56 is component ‘c’, NGC 6677. It appears as a considerably bright 3:1 elongated glow with defined edges. Slightly brighter center. PA = 90 and 0.5' long. A faint star is just off the SE edge.
VV 726, UGC 10731 (17 08 11.1 +63 37 47)
22" (328 and 383x) - It seemed at first a bit lost in the glow of the foreground star, which is right in the middle where the core would be at. Very faint round glow about 0.6' across.
VV 816 (15 51 31.6 +52 05 30)
22" (255, 328 and 383x) - Component a, MCG+9-26-21, is a faint compact slightly elongated glow with defined edges. Stellar core. 0.2' across and PA = 30.
Component b, SDSS J155131.56+520519.8, is very faint, very small compact round glow. 0.1' across. The two galaxies are about 0.4' apart, N-S.
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