Galaxies in Camelopardalis

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Celestron Origin can easily image faint galaxies within an hour or two integration time. In this 1.27° x 0.85° field of view, centred on NGC 2523 in Camelopardalis, there are six galaxies that immediately stand out: three spirals, two barred and one elliptical. The barred structure of NGC 2523 is evident. Three of these galaxies are active galaxy nucleus (AGN) candidates. The faintest of these galaxies is UGC 4279 at 16.50 visual, but Origin can do several magnitudes better than that.

Finding more galaxies near these six is straightforward using the button links below. For example, if you select the action button for UGC 4290, you will open its Simbad page. There is a Simbad Query with the star chart to the right. If you query within 3 arcmin of UGC 4290 you will find galaxy LEDA 213458 (2MASX J08171651+7320530). Similarly, you can find LEDA 2757556 within 5 arcmin of UGC 4279 and so on. A faint galaxy found using Simbad is LEDA 2755866 shown in the Origin image. This galaxy has a visual magnitude of 17.79 and is not the dimmest object in the FOV. The galaxy is also in the SkySafari 7 Pro database as PGC 2755866. Finally, there are several compact groups of galaxies (CGs) in the image but most are too faint to see in the capture.

Note that there is a hot pixel (red) due to the outside temperature of -4°C at that time in the morning.