NGC 2997 informations

Exposure: 42 x 240 s

Equipment used: C9.25 and Focal reducer: F/D=6,3

Mount: Losmandy G11 with Gemini

Camera: SXV-H9C + its autoguider on Orion Flip Miror

Conditions:  bad seeing... Date: 2007-03-18  22:02----->2007-03-19  00:50

Type: Galaxie spirale -  inclinée de 45°

Magnetude 9.40

Distance: 55 millions d'années Lumière

Taille 8,9 x 6.8 minutes d'arc

masse: 100 milliards de fois celle du soleil

s'éloigne de nous à la vitesse de 1100 km/s

Type: Spiral Galaxy -  45° inclined

Magnitude: 9.40

about 55 million light years distant

Size: 8.9 x 6.8 arcmin

mass: about 100 billion times that of the Sun

is speeding away from us at about 1100 kilometers per second