Quasar 3C 273

Subject:	Quasar 3C 273 in Virgo.
Telescope:	Takahashi FSQ-106n f/5.
Mount:	Losmandy G-11
Imager:	SBIG ST-7 non-E non-ABG -15 degrees C
Image Details:	A single 5 minute integration of this remote object. This serves as a finder chart for those interested in finding this odd little subject. Red-shift measurements place this object some 3 billion light-years away from Earth: the most distant object yet recorded on CCD by us here at the Northwood Ridge Observatory. 28 April 2001. Magnitude estimate done using false aperture photometry in MaxImDL. 3C 273 is located at (Year 2000 epoch): RA: 12:29:06.698 Dec: +02:03:08.58

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