NGC 7513


Combination of 10, 3 minute exposures, SBIG ST9XE CCD camera.
300mm f/6 newtonian telescope at prime focus.

NGC 7513 is a member of the Grus-Indus galaxy cluster. It is situated in Sculptor, about 3 degrees east of Fomalhaut, just north of an 8th magnitude star. It is a very bright, barred spiral galaxy that is easily visible in an 8" telescope. A short distance to the south-west is the gaint elliptical galaxy, NGC 7507. This is also a very easy object for an 8" telescope.

There are numerous, very distant, faint galaxies in the image above. The largest concentration of them is just to the south-west of NGC 7513. This is the galaxy cluster Abell 3980. Unfortunately I have been unable to track down any other information about this cluster.