| Edge-on
Spiral Galaxy
aka PGC 37691, MCG 7-25-9, Uppsala 6963 Integrated Visual Magnitude: 12.3 Apparent Diameter: 4.8' x 1.1' Mean surface brightness: 22.8 mag/arc-sec2 |
Hubble Image |
NGC 4013 is an interesting little edge-on galaxy that was recently the target of the Hubble Space Telescope. The Hubble image clearly shows the dark band of overlying molecular dust clouds that lie in the plane of this perfectly edge-on galaxy. NGC 4013 was also described by Tom Polakis in his April 1996 Sky & Telescope article Edge-on Galaxies of Spring.
In his article Polakis described NGC 4013 as "Moderately faint, 4'x1.5' p.a. 135 deg., with a large bulge, and alight central brightening." In my 18-inch f/4.5 I was struck by the bright star near the center. This star nearly drowns out the galaxy and I found it to be sort of distracting.
The field in a six-inch at 50x. North is down and east is to the right.
| Millennium
Star Atlas Vol II Chart 613
Sky Atlas 2000 Chart 6 Uranometria 2000 Vol I Chart 74 |
