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2 Attachment(s) Compact Dwarf in M81 system UGC 5497 by WA0CKY
UGC 5497 is a blue compact dwarf galaxy that is a member of the M81 galaxy group so very close to us. But being a dwarf very small. While it has been known...
July 27th 15 09:11 PM
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3 Attachment(s) Ngc 5002 by WA0CKY
NGC 5002 is an barred Magellanic galaxy usually considered a member of the NGC 5033 group in Canes Venatici. NED's 5 year WMAP data shows it to be about 61...
July 27th 15 09:02 PM
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1 Attachment(s) Galaxy pair NGC 2884 and 2889 by WA0CKY
NGC 2884 and 2889 are a considered a galaxy pair in Hydra. They apparently are only an optical pair as NGC 2884 has a redshift based distance of 250 million...
July 21st 15 07:55 AM
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2 Attachment(s) Ngc 5400 by WA0CKY
NGC 5400 is a very large S0 galaxy in Virgo about 350 to 360 million light-years distant. Thus while it is in Virgo it is far beyond the Virgo Galaxy cluster...
July 19th 15 07:06 AM
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3 Attachment(s) NGC 2684 and lots of distant friends by WA0CKY
NGC 2684 is a rather non symmetrical galaxy by the front feet of Ursa Major. Redshift puts it about 140 million light-years distant. It lies among a lot of...
July 15th 15 07:44 AM
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2 Attachment(s) Ngc 2192 by WA0CKY
NGC 2192 is a rather tight but somewhat sparse open cluster in Auriga about 8,000 light-years distant with a Trumpler classification of III1p meaning it has no...
July 13th 15 09:52 PM
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4 Attachment(s) ASTRO: FGC 1471 Better known under another name by Rick Johnson[_2_]
FGC 1471 is an edge on spiral in Coma Berenices. NED says it SA(s)b? with two cores separated by 0.8" one Sy3 the other Sy1.9. I rather like flat galaxies...
July 12th 15 06:13 PM
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3 Attachment(s) Abell 1314 and MRK 178 by WA0CKY
MRK 0178 is a very blue nearby irregular galaxy seen in front of the Abell 1314 galaxy cluster. Several sources list it as being a double galaxy and one says...
July 12th 15 08:42 AM
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2 Attachment(s) Strange, peculiar NGC 2876 by WA0CKY
NGC 2876 and its companions are located in Hydra about 2 degrees north of Alphard (Alpha Hydrae). This put it right in the geostationary satellite belt as...
July 12th 15 05:27 AM
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3 Attachment(s) McNeil's Nebula for 2015 by WA0CKY
McNeil's Nebula suddenly appeared being recognized as a new object by M78 January 23, 2004 when Jay McNeil found it testing a 3" refractor. Searching old...
July 8th 15 06:43 AM
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3 Attachment(s) Ngc 5201 by WA0CKY
NGC 5201 is a very strange, huge galaxy in Ursa Major between the last two stars in the handle of the Big Dipper. Redshift measurements put it some 400...
July 7th 15 07:28 AM
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2 Attachment(s) Arp 275 by WA0CKY
Arp 275/NGC 2881 is a pair of colliding galaxies in Hydra nearly a quarter billion light-years from earth. Arp had no category for colliding galaxies. Though...
July 6th 15 04:47 AM
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2 Attachment(s) ASTRO: GN 19.53.3 with NGC 6857/Sh2-99/Sh2-100 by Stefan Lilge
I got the data for these two images in 2013 but only managed to process them recently. As these two fields are overlapping a bit with my field of view I...
July 6th 15 04:37 AM
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3 Attachment(s) Spiral NGC 5211 by WA0CKY
NGC 5211 is a rather strange spiral galaxy in Virgo 170 to 180 million light-years distant. It is classified by NED as (R')SAB(rs)ab pec though the NGC...
July 6th 15 12:03 AM
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3 Attachment(s) Ngc 3614 by WA0CKY
The barred spiral galaxy, NGC 3614 is located in Ursa Major nearly 10 degrees below the bowl of the Big Dipper portion of the constellation. It is a huge...
July 5th 15 11:58 PM
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3 Attachment(s) Large Spiral NGC 5375/5396 by WA0CKY
NGC 5375/5396 is a large spiral galaxy in southeastern Canes Venatici about 120 million light-years distant and about 120,000 light-years across. NED...
July 5th 15 06:33 AM
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2 Attachment(s) Spiral UGC 6903 by WA0CKY
UGC 6903 is a diffuse low surface brightness SB(s)cd galaxy in Virgo. The galaxy has an out of focus look to it with all its features being very soft and...
July 3rd 15 06:06 AM
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3 Attachment(s) Nearby Dwarf Galaxy UGC 8201 by WA0CKY
UGC 8201/PGC 045372 is a Magellanic irregular dwarf galaxy that belongs to the M81 galaxy group. Measurements of its distance vary around 15 million...
July 2nd 15 03:05 AM
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3 Attachment(s) Compact Galaxy Group SHK 1 by WA0CKY
SHK 1 (Shakhbazian Compact Groups 1) is a really compact galaxy group. It consists of over 17 small red galaxies, about 1.5 billion light-years distant in...
June 29th 15 10:24 PM
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3 Attachment(s) Ngc 2750 by WA0CKY
NGC 2750 is a triangular shaped galaxy about 135 million light-years distant (125 million by a single Tully-Fisher measurement) in northwestern Cancer. It's...
June 25th 15 04:08 PM
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