{"id":689,"date":"2025-02-01T00:01:34","date_gmt":"2025-02-01T00:01:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lonepeak.space\/?p=689"},"modified":"2025-03-26T15:40:31","modified_gmt":"2025-03-26T15:40:31","slug":"m-2903","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lonepeak.space\/index.php\/2025\/02\/01\/m-2903\/","title":{"rendered":"M 2903"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Wikipedia Description:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

NGC 2903<\/strong> is an isolated barred spiral galaxy<\/a> in the equatorial<\/a> constellation<\/a> of Leo<\/a>, positioned about 1.5\u00b0 due south of Lambda Leonis<\/a>.[10]<\/a><\/sup> It was discovered by German-born astronomer William Herschel<\/a>, who cataloged it on November 16, 1784. He mistook it as a double nebula<\/a>, as did subsequent observers, and it wasn’t until the nineteenth century that the Third Earl of Rosse<\/a> resolved into a spiral form.[5]<\/a><\/sup> J. L. E. Dreyer<\/a> assigned it the identifiers 2903 and 2905 in his New General Catalogue<\/a><\/em>; NGC 2905 now designates a luminous knot in the northeastern spiral arm<\/a>.[11]<\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n\n\n\n

This field galaxy<\/a>[12]<\/a><\/sup> is located about 30[3]<\/a><\/sup> million light-years<\/a> away from the Milky Way<\/a>, and is a member of the Virgo Supercluster<\/a>.[4]<\/a><\/sup> The morphological classification<\/a> of this galaxy is SBbc,[6]<\/a><\/sup> indicating a barred spiral (SB) with moderate to tightly-wound spiral arms (bc). De Vaucouleurs<\/a> and associates assigned it the class SAB(rs)bc, suggesting a weaker bar structure (SAB) with a partial ring (rs). The bar structure appears stronger in the near infrared<\/a> band. The galaxy as a whole is inclined by an angle of 60\u00b0 to the line of sight from the Earth.[7]<\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Wikipedia: NGC 2903<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Acquisition Details:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Telescope<\/td>Takahashi TOA-130<\/td><\/tr>
Optics<\/td>Takahashi TOA-645 Flattener<\/td><\/tr>
Filter<\/td>None<\/td><\/tr>
Camera<\/td>ASI2600MC Pro OSC<\/td><\/tr>
Integration Time<\/td>6.3 Hours<\/td><\/tr>
Subframes<\/td>188 x 120<\/td><\/tr>
Date<\/td>January 30, 2025<\/td><\/tr>
Location<\/td>Carlsbad, California<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Wikipedia Description: NGC 2903 is an isolated barred spiral galaxy in the equatorial constellation of Leo, positioned about 1.5\u00b0 due south of Lambda Leonis.[10] It was discovered by German-born astronomer William Herschel, who cataloged it on November 16, 1784. He mistook it as a double nebula, as did subsequent observers, and it wasn’t until the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":523,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-689","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lonepeak.space\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/689","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lonepeak.space\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lonepeak.space\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lonepeak.space\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lonepeak.space\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=689"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.lonepeak.space\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/689\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":719,"href":"https:\/\/www.lonepeak.space\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/689\/revisions\/719"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lonepeak.space\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/523"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lonepeak.space\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lonepeak.space\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lonepeak.space\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}