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NGC 908
ESO545-G011, MCG-04-06-004
RA 02:23:03
Dec -21° 14.0'
Gal |
Discovered in 1786 by William Herschel (H
I-153): "cB, vL, E sp-nf, above 15' long."
Burnham calls it is 11.1 mag spiral galaxy, 4'
x 1.3', considerably bright, very large, elongated; has thick spiral arms."
Hartung notes: "In a field sprinkled with
stars in effective contrast is this large fairly bright spindle about 4'x1' in
PA 172°, rising broadly but greatly to the centre . . . A faint star is
immersed on the following edge south. A four-inch will show faintly the
elongated form."
Listed by the Herschel Club, described as “fairly
large, evenly bright, elongated in shape, stands out well with direct vision.
6-inch, 48x.”
Michael E. Sweetman (Tucson, Arizona, USA),
observing with a 12x40 binoculars, writes in the The Webb Society Nebulae and
Clusters Section Report No. 10, July 1992: "Picked up at x48. Large and
faint with some elongation in an east-west direction. There is no nucleus and
only a slight increase in brightness towards the centre. At x512, the
elongation is seen to be N.p.-S.f. and the galaxy shows a dim core with
extensions to the N-S; hints of S-shape."
Tom Lorenzin: “11.1M; 4'x 1' extent;
fairly bright slash with brighter middle area; thick spiral arms seen obliquely.”
Steve Coe, using a 13” f/5.6, notes: “Pretty
bright, large, elongated 2 X 1, gradually brighter middle. At 165X the core of
this galaxy is elongated in the same PA as the galaxy.” |
