| Catalogue
and alternative designations |
NGC
5643
|
| Type |
Barred
spiral galaxy |
| Position |
14
32.7, -44 10 |
| Constellation |
Lupus |
| Camera
and Telescope |
STL11000M
and 31.75 cm Ritchey Chretien |
| Focal
Ratio |
F9 |
| Exposure
Details |
LRGB
=210:105:105:105 with
Astrodon filters. All binned 1x1.
285 minutes of synthetic
luminance was also
included. The image has
been cropped for composition
purposes.
|
| Description |
It's
difficult to find much data
about this galaxy as it seems to
seldom imaged. It is a
fairly large (4.5' x 4.0) barred
spiral in an attractive star
field.
|