Object: Galaxy group COPELAND'S SEPTET (ngc3753)  Constell: LEO

RA: 11h 37.9m (3753)    Decl: +21° 59'          Epoch: 2000
Mag:                    Size:                   Type: 

Observer: Jere Kahanpää
Obs. place: Hartola, Finland
Date/Time: 10./11.4.1994, 00.35

Telescope: N 205/1000
Magn: 133x              Filter:
Field: 22'              NE Lim.mag: 6.2m
Background sky: 2       Seeing: 2 
Weather: -5 °C, no Moon, faint aurorae N.

Brightness: all 5       Alt:    
Description: With 40x something is visible on the S side of the
12th mag. "central star". 133x: Much better. The brightest
galaxy on the S side is NGC 3753 & -4, seen as a illdefined
elliptical (2.5:1) glow. Very faint. PA 170. ngc 3753: (14.6m
(p), 2'x0.6',Sabp? sp). 

About 40'' SSW is NGC 3750 (15.2m(p), 0.9'x0.7', SAB0-?): Very
small, not concentrated. 

About 2.5' S is NGC 3751: (15.5m(p), 0.4'x0.3',S0-p?) Very
small, extremely faint, a bit concentrated. 

About 3' NW of the brightest one are NGC 3646 and NGC3648. -46
is the W one (15.3m(p), 1.3'x0.7',SB(r)b): Elliptical (1.5:1),
very faint, somewhat concentrated. 

NGC 4648 (15.5m(p), 0.8'x0.3', SB0: sp) eeF. Barely visible. 

Summary: A group of very faint galaxies but still within reach
of a 8-incher. Nothing seen without averted vision.