Hickson 41


Elevation 800 m, telescope D = 508 mm, F = 2000 mm. Sky 21.72 mag/sw arcsec, seeing 1-2 arcsec. Hickson 41, galaxy group, UMa. Components A and B strongly elongated at different angles with a 13 mm ocular. With 5.5 mm, C comes into view as a small amorphous patch. Bright Uranometria star N, less bright star SW, two faint stars NW, similar star E, threshold star inwards from it. D and the MCG galaxy SW of A not seen. [As sketched, the threshold star is in the position of the nearly starlike component D, USNOA2 Vmag 16. An actual star lies more than 1 arcmin - the length of component A - to the W and has Vmag 17.]