Subject : NGC 5905,
Classification: Galaxy in Draco
Date/time: 2015. 06.05. UT 22:00 – 22:50
Equipment: 68mm Refractor,
Eyepieces/Mag. : 53x
Seeing : –
Transparency: –
Humidity: low
Wind: –
Temperature: –
Observing Loc. : Lonsee, Swabian Mountains, Germany
Observer : Dr. Johannes Schilling
NGC 5905, 10.3m, 11,5’X1,7′
Discovered by William Herschel 1788, May 5th
Moon rises 23.35h and brightens the sky
With this small telescope the galaxy was only visible in averted vision, but with structures: I could detect the brighter rim at the northwest side of the galaxy and I spied repeatedly the dark line or, in another description, a second „ray, very much extend, parallel to NGC 5907, and close preceding it” (Third Earl of Rosse in nineteenth century). Weak knots and nucleus.
