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NGC3621 (Galaxy, in Hydra, Est. RaDec 11h18m16s,-32d48'42")
Observer: Dave Mitsky (e-mail: djm28@psu.edu)
Instrument: 14.5-inch Dobsonian reflector Location: The Grand Canyon, Arizona, USA
Light pollution: none Transparency: excellent Seeing: excellent
Time: Sun Jun 17 01:25:00 2001 UT Obs. no.: 566
In June of 2001 I took an astronomy related vacation to Arizona, visiting the Lowell Observatory, Anderson Mesa, the Grand Canyon, Meteor Crater, the Skywatcher's Inn, and Kitt Peak. The weather gods were kind to me in the beginning but an early onset of the summer monsoon made stargazing impossible during the second half of my trip when I was in the southern part of the state.While attending the opening night of the Grand Canyon Star Party I viewed the only unlogged object of my Astronomical League's Herschel 400 project. Under the very dark skies and more southerly latitude of the South Rim of the GrandCanyon, NGC 3621 proved to be an easy target, which was quite unlike the casefrom the site in Pennsylvania where I do most of my observing. Jane and Morris(Mojo) Jones, who I knew through the Internet, were gracious enough to allow methe use of one of their 3 Litebox Dobs, a 14.5" f/4.8 that provided an excellentview of this 9.6 magnitude H400 galaxy with the help of a 19mm Tele Vue Panoptic. NGC 3261 lay within a diamond of sixth and seventh magnitude field stars. Thisface-on spiral appeared as a fairly large (10.0' or greater), somewhat elongated oval with a ratherbright nucleus.
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