Herschel 126
NGC 2787

Object Type Galaxy Sa
Constellation Ursa Major
Magnitude 10.9
Size 3.1' x 1.8'


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

Number 126 in the Herschel 400 list is NGC 2787. This is a fairly small but bright spiral galaxy in Ursa Major.

Visual Observation Notes:- NGC 2787.

Moderately large. Elliptical. Moderately bright centre, faint outer haze.
18" f/5 newtonian. 16mm nagler eyepiece. 143x.
Sky View observatory. Zenith limiting magnitude 6.7.