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View Full Version : Object of the Week, June 30, 2024, the NGC 3511 & NGC 3513 galaxy pair in Crater



Paul Alsing
June 28th, 2024, 03:36 PM
NGC 3511
R.A.: 11h 03m 23.8 Dec.: ?23° 05? 12?
Size: 5.8? × 2.0?, Magnitude: 11.5

NGC 3513
R.A.: 11 03 46 Dec.: -23 14 43.7
Size: 2.9' x 2.4', Magnitude: 12.0

Recently I have been tasked with authoring my OOTWs on Sundays while traveling to astronomical events! This time I will be on the road to GSSP… last time was the total eclipse in Texas and the time before that it was the annular eclipse in Utah! Since I am leaving today I’ll be posting this 2 days early!

NGCs 3511 and 3513 are a little low right now but are still a great pair in the same field of view since they are only about 11 arcminutes apart. Each is about 40 million light-years distant and are gravitational bound. Both objects were discovered by Herschel on the same sweep in December, 1786.

NGC 3511 is a spiral galaxy, about 3 times longer than it is wide, and NGC 3513 is a nearly round barred spiral, which is about half the size of its big brother.

In the eyepiece of my 25” f/5 Obsession they were an easy target, but being low in the sky for me I saw little detail in either, and the bar in NGC 3513 was not apparent on that particular night. Still, I enjoy two objects for the price of one, and these are a fine pair. Here is a nice photo from Walter A Keller (https://www.astrobin.com/eqj4t4/)…


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As always, give it a go and let us know.

Raul Leon
June 29th, 2024, 08:59 PM
Hi, here's my observation from 4/4/2011: Ngc 3511 and Ngc 3513 galaxy pair in Crater ; Ngc 3511 is mag.11.5 and elongated with many bright knots . Ngc 3513 is 12th mag. and round and diffuse. I used a 14mm Meade Ultrawide eyepiece with my 14.5 StarStructure f/4.3
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Uwe Glahn
July 10th, 2024, 06:38 PM
Nice duo Paul.

I can contribute an observation made in the Morocco desert with 16-inch.

sketch: 16", 183x-261x, NELM 7m0+, Seeing III
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