Dog-Star Observatory -- Deep-Sky Drawing Archive
M-77 galaxy
October 20-21, 2001 4:10 UTC
10" F5 Dob. (100x)
DSO - Pennsylvania Furnace, PA

bright and easy, round with starlike nucleus, about 5' diam

M-77 galaxy in Cetus
October 21, 1979
8" RFT with 28mm Erfle

ngc-1055 is other galaxy (to left)

M-77 galaxy in Cetus
December 28, 1978
Partly cloudy with large holes
8" RFT with 28mm Erfle

fairly bright galaxy, book sez 9.6 mag, easy to find
and has starlike nucleus (or star superimposed)

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