NGC 4169 Com Galaxy Difficulty level: 4/5
NGC 4170 Com Galaxy Difficulty level: 5/5
NGC 4174 Com Galaxy Difficulty level: 4/5
NGC 4175 Com Galaxy Difficulty level: 4/5
HCG61
The Box
Date of observation: 1998/02/27 03:30
Observing site: Makinoto
Transparency/seeing/sky darkness: 3/3/4
Instruments: 32cm Dobsonian and TPL10.5
Magnification: 150x
Width of field: 0.3 degree
Four galaxies are clustered beautifully. It is very interesting that they are close together forming a rectangle. At a glance you can see only NGC 4169, but with a closer look, NGC 4174 and NGC 4175 become visible. With more careful search NGC 4170 will be faintly visible.