This beautiful barred-spiral-galaxy (typed SAB(s)b) is located in the constellation of Lepus and has a distance from us of about 67 mio.light-years.It is member of the NGC1964-galaxy-group
Size is about 6.0x2.0 arc-minutes it shines with an apparent brightness of 11.0 mag,that makes it visible in mid-sized telescopes larger than 4-inch aperture.
NGC1964 was first seen by John Herschel in 1784
position (epoch2000):
RA.: 05h 33m 21,7s
Decl.: -21° 56′ 45″
image data:
LRGB image with L = 23x1200s, RGB = 8x1200s each,a total of 15.7 hours
80cm f/7 AstroOptik Keller corrected cassegrain FLI Proline 16803 Astrodon LRGB Gen-II filters
Prompt 7 CTIO/UNC Chile,remote controlled
image processing: Bernd Flach-Wilken
88% of our FOV can be seen here with NGC1964 in the midth.Click here for full resolution
a more detailed version of NGC1964 can be ssen here:
Here you may have a look to ESO´s version of NGC1964,taken with the 2,2 reflector