Herschel 120
NGC 2681

Object Type Galaxy SO
Constellation Ursa Major
Magnitude 10.2
Size 3.6' x 3.3'


Combination of 5, 3 minute images unfiltered.
SBIG STL-1001E CCD. 20" f/6.8 Dall-Kirkham cassegrain telescope at prime focus.

Number 120 in the Herschel 400 list is NGC 2681. This is a large and bright face-on spiral galaxy in Ursa Major. In the telescope it appears almost perfectly circular with a bright core. looking just like an elliptical galaxy. However photographs clearly show a disc, meaning it is a spiral. Of the numerous faint background galaxies visible in the image, the brightest is the 17.1 magnitude, PGC 24936, visible to the upper right of NGC 2681.

Visual Observation Notes:- NGC 2681.

Moderately large. Fairly bright. Circular with a bright centre surrounded by a faint haze.
18" f/5 newtonian. 16mm nagler eyepiece. 143x.
Sky View observatory. Zenith limiting magnitude 6.7.